شمع و پروانہ
سیماب وار رکھتی ہے تیری ادا اسےآداب عشق تو نے سکھائے ہیں کیا اسے؟
English translation
Your charm keeps it restless like mercury. Did you teach it the etiquette of Love?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
سیماب وار: پارہ کی طرح بے قرار۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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