سیر فلک

خنک ایسا کہ جس سے شرما کرکرہ زمہریر ہو روپوش

English translation

It was so cold that being embarrassed by it
The Arctic Circle was concealing its face

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 10 of 14 in “⁨سیر فلک⁩” (Strolling in the Celestial World) 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 poem

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