شمع اور شاعر
سوچ تو دل میں، لقب ساقی کا ہے زیبا تجھے؟انجمن پیاسی ہے اور پیمانہ بے صہبا ترا!
English translation
Just think if cup-bearer’s title is appropriate for you; assembly is thirsty and the wine-measure is empty of yours.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
بے صہبا: بغیر شراب کے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 86 in “شمع اور شاعر” (The Candle And The Poet) 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 poem۱۱ / ۸۶