چاند
گرچہ میں ظلمت سراپا ہوں، سراپا نور توسینکڑوں منزل ہے ذوق آگہی سے دور تو
English translation
Though the embodiment of darkness I am, embodiment of light you are. Hundreds of stages away from the taste of Intellect you are.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 of 13 in “چاند” (The Moon) 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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