شبنم اور ستارے
رہتی ہے سدا نرگس بیمار کی تر آنکھدل طالب نظارہ ہے، محروم نظر آنکھ
English translation
The eye of the sick narcissus always remains wet; the heart longs for sight, but the eye is sightless.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 14 in “شبنم اور ستارے” (The Dew And The Stars) 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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