شمع و پروانہ

گرنا ترے حضور میں اس کی نماز ہےننھے سے دل میں لذت سوز و گداز ہے

English translation

Falling before you is the prayer of this little heart; the taste for impassioned Love knows this little heart.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 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.

Read it in the poem

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