حقیقت حسن
کہیں قریب تھا، یہ گفتگو قمر نے سنیفلک پہ عام ہوئی، اختر سحر نے سنی
English translation
The moon was somewhere near and it heard this conversation; it became well-known in the heaven, the morning star heard.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
اختر سحر: صبح کا تارا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 7 in “حقیقت حسن” (The Reality Of Beauty) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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