سوال نہم
بدوش شام نعش آفتابیکواکب را کفن از ماہتابی
English translation
The corpse of the sun is carried on the shoulders of the evening; the stars vanish when the moon appears.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
شام کے کندھے پر آفتاب کی نعش ہے ، اور ستاروں کے لیے چاندنی کفن ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 8 in “سوال نہم” (Question 9) in the section New Garden of Mysteries, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
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