تصویر درد
جلانا دل کا ہے گویا سراپا نور ہو جانایہ پروانہ جو سوزاں ہو تو شمع انجمن بھی ہے
English translation
The heart's pathos in a way is to become embodiment of Light; if this moth burns it is also the assembly's candle.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 65 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.
Read it in the poem۶۵ / ۶۹