شمع و پروانہ
پروانہ، اور ذوق تماشائے روشنیکیڑا ذرا سا، اور تمنائے روشنی
English translation
The moth and the taste for the Sight of the Light! This small insect and the Longing for the Light!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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