شمع
یاد دطن فسردگی بے سبب بنیشوق نظر کبھی، کبھی ذوق طلب بنی
English translation
Memories of the homeland a needless melancholy became: Now the desire for sight, now longing for search became.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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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