شبنم اور ستارے

بنیاد ہے کاشانہ عالم کی ہوا پرفریاد کی تصویر ہے قرطاس فضا پر

English translation

The foundation of the world’s abode is in the air; it is the picture of lament on the sheet of space!’

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 14 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.

Read it in the poem

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