ہلال عید
نتوان ز چشم شوق رمید اے ہلال عیداز صد نگہ براہ تو دامے نہادہ اندبر خود نظر گشا ز تہی دامنی مرنجدر سینۂ تو ماہ تمامی نہادہ اند
English translation
You cannot manage to evade the eager view of people waiting for a sight of you. A thousand glances have conspired to weave a net to catch you in.
Open your eyes to yourself. Do not grieve that you are a bare outline. Within you lies a real full moon.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “ہلال عید” (The New Moon Of Eid) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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