معراج
تو معنی و النجم، نہ سمجھا تو عجب کیاہے تیرا مد و جزر ابھی چاند کا محتاج
English translation
No wonder, meanings of Najm from you hide, on Moon depends your ocean's ebb and tide.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “معراج” (Ascension) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۴