بچہ اور شمع
حسن کے اس عام جلوے میں بھی یہ بے تاب ہےزندگی اس کی مثال ماہی بے آب ہے
English translation
It is restless even in this general splendour of Beauty; its life is like a fish out of water.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 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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