شمع

میں جوش اضطراب سے سیماب وار بھیآگاہ اضطراب دل بے قرار بھی

English translation

I quiver like mercury with the excitement of vexation as well I am aware of vexations of the restless heart.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 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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