محبت
ذرا سی پھر ربوبیت سے شان بے نیازی لیملک سے عاجزی، افتادگی تقدیر شبنم سے
English translation
Then he took a little grandeur of Beniyazi from the Divinity. He took humility from the angel, humbleness from dew’s destiny.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
ربوبیت: پروردگارگی۔افتادگی: نیچے گرنا ، مراد ہے خاکساری۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 of 16 in “محبت” (Love) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۱۲ / ۱۶