شمع اور شاعر
کعبہ پہلو میں ہے اور سودائی بت خانہ ہےکس قدر شوریدہ سر ہے شوق بے پروا ترا
English translation
With the Ka‘bah by your side you are temple’s lover; how rebellious is the irresponsible love of yours.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
شوريدہ: دیوانہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 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 poem۱۳ / ۸۶