تنہائی

تنہائی شب میں ہے حزیں کیاانجم نہیں تیرے ہم نشیں کیا!

English translation

Why are you sad in the night's loneliness? Are not the stars your close associates?

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 5 in “⁨تنہائی⁩” (Loneliness) 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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