رات اور شاعر
برق ایمن مرے سینے پہ پڑی روتی ہےدیکھنے والی ہے جو آنکھ، کہاں سوتی ہے!
English translation
Aiman’s lightning is lying on my breast and weeping; where the eye which has insight is sleeping?
(Aiman: The Valley of Mount Toor where Mosa A.S. saw the Effulgence of God in the form of lightning.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 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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