ترے عشق کی انتہا چاہتا ہوں
کوئی دم کا مہماں ہوں اے اہل محفلچراغ سحر ہوں، بجھا چاہتا ہوں
English translation
O assembly’s companions! I am existing only for a few moments; I am the dawn’s candle, I am about to be extinguished.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “ترے عشق کی انتہا چاہتا ہوں” (Tere ishq ki inteha chahta hoon) in the section The Ghazals 1, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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