بچہ اور شمع
کیسی حیرانی ہے یہ اے طفلک پروانہ خوشمع کے شعلوں کو گھڑیوں دیکھتا رہتا ہے تو
English translation
O Child with moth-like nature! ‘How strange that you keep gazing at the flame of the candle for hours?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 15 in “بچہ اور شمع” (The Child And The Candle) 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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