نگاہ
اندھیری رات میں یہ چشمکیں ستاروں کییہ بحر، یہ فلک نیلگوں کی پہنائی!
English translation
The sea that has no bound or marge, and azure sky that seems so high, when pitch dark night has upper hand, they gleam and glint like stars in sky.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
چشمکيں ستاروں کي: ستاروں کی جگمگاہٹ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “نگاہ” (Vision) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۲ / ۴