شمع
یہ امتیاز رفعت و پستی اسی سے ہےگل میں مہک، شراب میں مستی اسی سے ہے
English translation
Discrimination between high and low is created by this alone! Fragrance in flower, ecstasy in wine is created by this alone!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 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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