شمع
ہے شان آہ کی ترے دود سیاہ میںپوشیدہ کوئی دل ہے تری جلوہ گاہ میں؟
English translation
Your black smoke contains the sigh's elegance. Is some heart hidden in the place of your manifestation?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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