چاند اور تارے

کہنے لگا چاند، ہم نشینواے مزرع شب کے خوشہ چینو!

English translation

The moon started saying: ‘O Companions’! ‘O gleaners of the field of night.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 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.

Read it in the poem

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