مثال پرتو مے، طوف جام کرتے ہیں
نیا جہاں کوئی اے شمع ڈھونڈیے کہ یہاںستم کش تپش ناتمام کرتے ہیں
English translation
O Candle! Search for a new world, because here* we are enduring tyrannies of the incomplete Love.
(Allusion to the verses of the Holy Qur'an which give this information, e.g. 62:1 and 64:1. This means that the Love of and approach to God is universally present in the nature of all His creation, even in inanimate objects.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 10 in “مثال پرتو مے، طوف جام کرتے ہیں” (Misaal-e-partav-e-may, toof-e-jaam karte hain) in the section The Ghazals 2, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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