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 poem۳ / ۴