اختر صبح
بساط کیا ہے بھلا صبح کے ستارے کینفس حباب کا، تابندگی شرارے کی
English translation
After all what is the capacity of the dawn’s star: It is like bubble’s breath, like the spark’s brightness’.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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