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.

Read it in the poem

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