خضرراہ
رات کے افسوں سے طائر آشیانوں میں اسیرانجم کم ضو گرفتار طلسم ماہتاب
English translation
With the spell of night the birds were confined in nests. The twinkling stars were caught in the moon’s spell!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
افسوں؛ طلسم: جادو۔انجم کم ضو: کم روشنی والے ستارے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) 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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