شمع
منزل کا اشتیاق ہے، گم کردہ راہ ہوںاے شمع ! میں اسیر فریب نگاہ ہوں
English translation
I have lost the way, Longing for the goal I am; O Candle! Captive of perception’s illusion I am.*
* This means that Man has lost his way to Divine knowledge by accepting only what he can see.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
اسیر فریب نگاہ: نظر کے فریب کا قیدی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 26 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 poem۲۶ / ۲۹