بزم انجم
اک عمر میں نہ سمجھے اس کو زمین والےجو بات پا گئے ہم تھوڑی سی زندگی میں
English translation
The earth’s denizens did not understand in a whole life: What has come in our comprehension in a short span of life.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 14 of 15 in “بزم انجم” (The Assembly Of 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 poem۱۴ / ۱۵