ستارہ
متاع نور کے لٹ جانے کا ہے ڈر تجھ کوہے کیا ہراس فنا صورت شرر تجھ کو؟
English translation
Are you afraid of being robbed of light’s wealth? Are you afraid of annihilation like the spark?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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