چاند
اے چاند! حسن تیرا فطرت کی آبرو ہےطوف حریم خاکی تیری قدیم خو ہے
English translation
O moon! Your beauty is the dignity of creation; circumambulating the earthly sanctuary is your old habit.
(Earthly Sanctuary: Metaphor for Earth.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 8 in “چاند” (The Moon) 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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