شمع اور شاعر
بجھ گیا وہ شعلہ جو مقصود ہر پروانہ تھااب کوئی سودائی سوز تمام آیا تو کیا
English translation
Extinguished is the flame which was every moth’s objective; if some pursuer of perfect love came now it matters little.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
سوز تمام: تمام حرارت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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 poem۲۱ / ۸۶