شبنم اور ستارے
ہیں مرغ نواریز گرفتار، غضب ہےاگتے ہیں تہ سایہ گل خار، غضب ہے
English translation
The melodious birds are imprisoned, it is outrageous; the thorns grow just under the rose, it is outrageous.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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