جگنو

کثرت میں ہو گیا ہے وحدت کا راز مخفیجگنو میں جو چمک ہے وہ پھول میں مہک ہے

English translation

Concealed in plurality is the secret of the Unity. What is fire-fly’s brightness is flower’s fragrance.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 17 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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