کوشش ناتمام
کہتا تھا قطب آسماں قافلہ نجوم سےہمرہو، میں ترس گیا لطف خرام کے لیے
English translation
The sky's polar star was saying to the stars' caravan: ‘Companions! I am tantalized for the pleasure of walking.’
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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.
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