انسان
تارے مست شراب تقدیرزندان فلک میں پا بہ زنجیر
English translation
Stars are intoxicated with destiny's wine; they are chained in the prison of the sky.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 10 in “انسان” (Mankind) 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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