شمع
وہ دن گئے کہ قید سے میں آشنا نہ تھازیب درخت طور مرا آشیانہ تھا
English translation
Gone are the days when unaware of imprisonment I was that my abode the adornment of the tree of Toor was.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 17 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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