ستارہ
غضب ہے پھر تری ننھی سی جان ڈرتی ہے!تمام رات تری کانپتے گزرتی ہے
English translation
It is outrageous that your feeble life is still in fear; your whole night passes in trembling with fear.
* The reply to the questions in the first three verses is obviously in the negative. In that case the fourth verse expresses surprise at the conditions stated in it. The amazement is satisfied in the last four verses according to which all creation, irrespective of its beauty and station in the universe is ephemeral and is destined to die or be annihilated.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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