شمع اور شاعر
آہ، جب گلشن کی جمعیت پریشاں ہو چکیپھول کو باد بہاری کا پیام آیا تو کیا
English translation
Ah! When the rose garden’s organization has already got disorganized; if the flower got the message of spring breeze matters little.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
گلشن کي جمعيت: باغ کا شیرازہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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 poem۱۹ / ۸۶