شمع و پروانہ
پروانہ تجھ سے کرتا ہے اے شمع پیار کیوںیہ جان بے قرار ہے تجھ پر نثار کیوں
English translation
O Candle! Why does the moth love you? Why is this restless soul devoted to you?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 8 in “شمع و پروانہ” (The Candle And The Moth) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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