فراق

ہے تخت لعل شفق پر جلوس اختر شامبہشت دیدہء بینا ہے حسن منظر شام

English translation

The evening stars are established on the throne of twilight's rubies: The spectacle of the evening's beauty is Paradise for the observant's eye.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 7 in “⁨فراق⁩” (Separation) 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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