شمع
تو جل رہی ہے اور تجھے کچھ خبر نہیںبینا ہے اور سوز دروں پر نظر نہیں
English translation
Though you are burning you are unaware of it all; you see but do not encompass the internal pathos.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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