شمع
جلتی ہے تو کہ برق تجلی سے دور ہےبے درد تیرے سوز کو سمجھے کہ نور ہے
English translation
You burn with pathos due to distance from Tajalli’s* Light. Your pathos the callous ones consider your light.
* Manifestation of God or His Powers or Attributes.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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