چاند

انساں ہے شمع جس کی، محفل وہی ہے تیری؟میں جس طرف رواں ہوں، منزل وہی ہے تیری؟

English translation

Man is the candle of the congregation which is also yours; the direction in which I am going is also your destination.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 8 in “⁨چاند⁩” (The Moon) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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