وصال

ضو سے اس خورشید کی اختر مرا تابندہ ہےچاندنی جس کے غبار راہ سے شرمندہ ہے

English translation

My star is shining with this sun's light, by whose path's dust the moon light is shy.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 10 of 11 in “⁨وصال⁩” (The Union (Meeting The Beloved)) 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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