دو ستارے
ہے خواب ثبات آشنائیآئین جہاں کا ہے جدائی
English translation
The permanence of union is a mere dream; the rule of the universe is separation!
* Allusion to the fact that stars do not occur in pairs but all of them cohere together as components of the universe. Similarly, the soorahs of the Holy Qur’an constitute a coherent whole and so should the Muslim Ummah be.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 6 in “دو ستارے” (The Two Stars) 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 poem۶ / ۶