شمع اور شاعر
قیس پیدا ہوں تری محفل میں یہ ممکن نہیںتنگ ہے صحرا ترا، محمل ہے بے لیلا ترا
English translation
That Qais be produced in your assembly is not possible; your wilderness is straitened, without Lailah is the litter of yours.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
محمل: لیلی کے بیٹھنے کی جگہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 14 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 poem۱۴ / ۸۶