شمع

تھا یہ بھی کوئی ناز کسی بے نیاز کااحساس دے دیا مجھے اپنے گداز کا

English translation

This was also the elegance of some Beloved, which gave me perception of my own pathos.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 10 of 29 in “⁨شمع⁩” (The Candle) 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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