رات اور شاعر
یا تو مری جبیں کا تارا گرا ہوا ہےرفعت کو چھوڑ کر جو بستی میں جا بسا ہے
English translation
Or you are a star fallen from my forehead; which, leaving eminence has adopted habitation in humility.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
رفعت: بلندی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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