سیر فلک

شعلے ہوتے ہیں مستعار اس کےجن سے لرزاں ہیں مرد عبرت کوش

English translation

The heat of its flames which is borrowed
Terrifies the people seeking admonition

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 13 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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