رات اور شاعر
کیوں میری چاندنی میں پھرتا ہے تو پریشاںخاموش صورت گل، مانند بو پریشاں
English translation
NIGHT:
Why in my light are you roaming about perturbed; silent like the rose, like the fragrance perturbed?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 14 in “رات اور شاعر” (The Night And The Poet) 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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