چاند اور تارے
ہے دوڑتا اشہب زمانہکھا کھا کے طلب کا تازیانہ
English translation
The horse of time is ever running, flogged by the desire for search.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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