ستارہ
قمر کا خوف کہ ہے خطرہء سحر تجھ کومآل حسن کی کیا مل گئی خبر تجھ کو؟
English translation
Are you afraid of the moon or the dawn? Are you conscious of the end of beauty?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 8 in “ستارہ” (Star) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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