بچہ اور شمع
دست قدرت نے اسے کیا جانے کیوں عریاں کیا!تجھ کو خاک تیرہ کے فانوس میں پنہاں کیا
English translation
It is not known why the Nature's hand made it manifest! And concealed you in the dark soil's mantle.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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