شمع
دی عشق نے حرارت سوز دروں تجھےاور گل فروش اشک شفق گوں کیا مجھے
English translation
Love gave the warmth of internal pathos to you; it made me the florist selling blood-mixed tears.*
* The expression is used to show extreme distress.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
شفق گوں: شفق کی مانند سرخ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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