شبنم اور ستارے
کیا تم سے کہوں کیا چمن افروز کلی ہےننھا سا کوئی شعلہ بے سوز کلی ہے
English translation
What can I tell you how garden-brightening the flower-bud is; some little flame without warmth the flower-bud is.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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