شبنم اور ستارے
اے تارو نہ پوچھو چمنستان جہاں کیگلشن نہیں، اک بستی ہے وہ آہ و فغاں کی
English translation
‘O stars! Do not ask me about the earth’s garden; a place of sighs and wailing it is, not a garden.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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