تنہائی

رہ دراز بریدم ز ماہ پرسیدمسفر نصیب، نصیب تو منزلی است کہ نیستجہان ز پرتو سیمای تو سمن زاریفروغ داغ تو از جلوۂ دلی است کہ نیستسوی ستارہ رقیبانہ دید و ہیچ نگفت

English translation

I traveled far, and asked the moon, ‘Your lot is to keep traveling, is it also your lot to reach a destination?
Your face sends out rays that turn the world into a land of Jasmine. But does the radiance of the scar on your face come from the glow of a heart or not? It cast a jealous glance at the star; it did not say a word.

Translated by Mustansir Mir

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 4 in “⁨تنہائی⁩” (Solitude) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (⁨پیامِ مشرق⁩), published in 1923.

Read it in the poem

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