ستارہ

زمیں سے دور دیا آسماں نے گھر تجھ کومثال ماہ اڑھائی قبائے زر تجھ کو

English translation

The sky has settled you far from the earth; it has wrapped you in gold’s mantle like the moon.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 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.

Read it in the poem

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