شبنم اور ستارے
کیا جانیے، تو کتنے جہاں دیکھ چکی ہےجو بن کے مٹے، ان کے نشاں دیکھ چکی ہے
English translation
Who knows how many worlds you have seen! Relics of those who rose and fell you have seen.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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