شمع اور شاعر
اور ہے تیرا شعار، آئین ملت اور ہےزشت روئی سے تری آئینہ ہے رسوا ترا
English translation
Your ways are different; the law of the Millat is different. Your mirror has been disgraced by the ugly appearance of yours.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
زشت روئي: بدصورتی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 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 poem۱۲ / ۸۶