اختر صبح
ستارہ صبح کا روتا تھا اور یہ کہتا تھاملی نگاہ مگر فرصت نظر نہ ملی
English translation
The dawn’s star was weeping and saying this: ‘I got the eye but not the leisure for Sight.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “اختر صبح” (The Morning Star –Venus) 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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