شمع
مجھ سے خبر نہ پوچھ حجاب وجود کیشام فراق صبح تھی میری نمود کی
English translation
Do not ask me of the nature of the veil of being; the eve of separation was the dawn of my being.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 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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