محاورۂ ما بین خدا و انسان
تو شب آفریدی چراغ آفریدمسفال آفریدی ایاغ آفریدم
English translation
You made the night, I made the lamp; you made the earthen bowl, I made the goblet.
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “محاورۂ ما بین خدا و انسان” (A Dialogue Between God And Man) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۶