امید
غمیں نہ ہو کہ بہت دور ہیں ابھی باقینئے ستاروں سے خالی نہیں سپہر کبود
English translation
Don't grieve, for millenniums and aeons more still lie ahead for man in store the ever spinning heaven blue is not devoid of planets new.
(Written in Riaz Manzil, Bhopal residence of Sir Rass Masood.)
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
سپہر کبود: نیلا آسمان۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 5 in “امید” (Hope) 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 poem۵ / ۵