کوشش ناتمام
رہتی ہے قیس روز کو لیلی شام کی ہوساختر صبح مضطرب تاب دوام کے لیے
English translation
The day's Qais has the pining for the night's Lailah; the morning star is restless for perpetual radiance.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 6 in “کوشش ناتمام” (The Unsuccessful Effort) 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 poem۲ / ۶