شمع
کعبے میں، بت کدے میں ہے یکساں تری ضیامیں امتیاز دیر و حرم میں پھنسا ہوا
English translation
Your illumination is alike in the Ka‘bah and the temple; I am entangled in the temple and the Haram's discrimination.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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