پروانہ اور جگنو
پروانے کی منزل سے بہت دور ہے جگنوکیوں آتش بے سوز پہ مغرور ہے جگنو
English translation
MOTH: The firefly is so far removed from the status of the moth! Why is it so proud of a fire that cannot burn?
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 2 in “پروانہ اور جگنو” (The Moth And The Firefly) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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