بچہ اور شمع
اس نظارے سے ترا ننھا سا دل حیران ہےیہ کسی دیکھی ہوئی شے کی مگر پہچان ہے
English translation
Though your tiny heart is surprised at this spectacle, but this is recognition of some object already seen!*
* This is the first hint in the poem that the candle's light is the same light as the Light of God seen by Man on the Primeval Day.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۱۵