ستارہ
اجل ہے لاکھوں ستاروں کی اک ولادت مہرفنا کی نیند مے زندگی کی مستی ہے
English translation
The birth of one sun is the death of a myriad stars; annihilation’s sleep is the ecstasy of life’s wine.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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