شمع

چشم غلط نگر کا یہ سارا قصور ہےعالم ظہور جلوہ ذوق شعور ہے

English translation

Not seeing it rightly is the fault of short-sighted perception; the universe is the show of effulgence of taste for Cognizance.*
* This means that Man has lost his way to Divine knowledge by being enslaved by the acceptance of only what he sees… If Man looks at the universe as required by the Holy Qur’an he will realize that the whole purpose of creation of the universe was to create Man.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 24 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 poem

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