شمع اور شاعر
اے در تابندہ، اے پروردہء آغوش موج!لذت طوفاں سے ہے نا آشنا دریا ترا
English translation
O brilliant pearl! O the one reared in the wave’s lap; unacquainted with the taste of storms is the ocean of yours.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
در تابندہ: چمکدار موتی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 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 poem۱۵ / ۸۶