تہذیب حاضر
کیا ذرے کو جگنو دے کے تاب مستعار اس نےکوئی دیکھے تو شوخی آفتاب جلوہ فرما کی
English translation
It made the speck into fire-fly by giving it borrowed light; just look at what the trickery of the splendid sun is.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
تاب مستعار: مانگی ہوئی روشنی ؛ عارضی چمک۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 8 in “تہذیب حاضر” (The Present Civilization) 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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