اختر صبح
ہوئی ہے زندہ دم آفتاب سے ہر شےاماں مجھی کو تہ دامن سحر نہ ملی
English translation
Everything has come to life through the sun’s energy; only I did not get protection under the morning’s skirt.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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