انسان اور بزم قدرت
نور خورشید کی محتاج ہے ہستی میریاور بے منت خورشید چمک ہے تری
English translation
My existence depends upon the light of the sun and your splendor is not indebted to the sun.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 20 in “انسان اور بزم قدرت” (Man And Nature's Assemblage) 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 poem۱۶ / ۲۰