شبنم اور ستارے
گل نالہ بلبل کی صدا سن نہیں سکتادامن سے مرے موتیوں کو چن نہیں سکتا
English translation
The rose cannot hear the nightingale’s call; it cannot pick up the pearls from my skirt.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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