دعا
شمع را سوز عیان آموختمخود نہان از چشم عالم سوختم
English translation
I taught the candle to burn openly, while I myself burned unseen by the world's eye.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
میں نے شمع کو عیانا جلنا سکھایا مگر خود دنیا کی آنکھ سے چھپ کر جلتا رہا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 of 46 in “دعا” (Invocation), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرارِ خودی), published in 1915.
Read it in the poem۲۷ / ۴۶