شمع اور شاعر
آخر شب دید کے قابل تھی بسمل کی تڑپصبحدم کوئی اگر بالائے بام آیا تو کیا
English translation
The lover’s condition was worth seeing at the night’s end; the Beloved’s arrival early in the morning matters little.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
بالائے بام: چھت کے اوپر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 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 poem۲۰ / ۸۶