جگنو

جگنو کی روشنی ہے کاشانہء چمن میںیا شمع جل رہی ہے پھولوں کی انجمن میں

English translation

The fire-fly's light is shining in the garden's abode; or a candle is lighted in the assembly of flowers?

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 18 in “⁨جگنو⁩” (The Fire-Fly) 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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