شمع
بستان و بلبل و گل و بو ہے یہ آگہیاصل کشاکش من و تو ہے یہ آگہی
English translation
Garden, nightingale, flower, fragrance this Cognition is Root of the struggle of 'I and you' this Cognition is.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
کشاکش: کھینچا تانی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 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 poem۱۳ / ۲۹