شمع اور شاعر
شمع محفل ہو کے تو جب سوز سے خالی رہاتیرے پروانے بھی اس لذت سے بیگانے رہے
English translation
If devoid of love’s warmth you remained even as assembly’s candle; your moths also unacquainted with this taste remained.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 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 poem۲۳ / ۸۶