شمع
یہ آگہی مری مجھے رکھتی ہے بے قرارخوابیدہ اس شرر میں ہیں آتش کدے ہزار
English translation
This cognition of mine keeps me restless*, innumerable fire temples are asleep in this spark.
* This verse and the two following mean that Man's Khudi is the source of the proper perception of the phenomena mentioned in these verses, which constitute the working of the universe. Unless Man recognizes his high position in the creation of God as his vicegerent, he cannot appreciate the beauty and harmony of the universe.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
آگہی: واقفیت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 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.
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