چاند اور تارے
ڈرتے ڈرتے دم سحر سےتارے کہنے لگے قمر سے
English translation
Being scared by the approaching dawn, stars started saying to the moon:
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 12 in “چاند اور تارے” (The Moon And Stars) 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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