تصویر درد
جلانا ہے مجھے ہر شمع دل کو سوز پنہاں سےتری تاریک راتوں میں چراغاں کر کے چھوڑں گا
English translation
I have to light every heart’s candle with hidden pathos; I will surely create bright illumination in your darkness.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 of 69 in “تصویر درد” (Picture of Pain) 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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