چاند اور تارے
چلنے والے نکل گئے ہیںجو ٹھہرے ذرا، کچل گئے ہیں
English translation
Those who were moving have moved away! Those halting a little, have been trampled!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 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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