شمع و پروانہ
کرتا ہے یہ طواف تری جلوہ گاہ کاپھونکا ہوا ہے کیا تری برق نگاہ کا؟
English translation
It circumambulates the site of your manifestation. Is it inspired with the fire of your lightning?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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