بیا کہ خاوریان نقش تازہ یی بستند
فرشتہ را دگر آن فرصت سجود کجاستکہ نوریان بتماشای خاکیان مستند
English translation
Angels lack the season now prostrate to their Lord to bow; creatures of pure light, for they rapturous gaze on men of clay!
Translated by A.J. Arberry
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 7 in “بیا کہ خاوریان نقش تازہ یی بستند” (biya ke khawariyan naqsh-e taza-e bastand) in the section Part 2, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
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