جگنو
پروانہ اک پتنگا، جگنو بھی اک پتنگاوہ روشنی کا طالب، یہ روشنی سراپا
English translation
The moth is an insect, as the fire-fly is an insect; the former needs light, the latter is light's embodiment.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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 poem۷ / ۱۸