شمع اور شاعر
شوق بے پروا گیا، فکر فلک پیما گیاتیری محفل میں نہ دیوانے نہ فرزانے رہے
English translation
Gone is the courageous Love, gone is the sublime thinking; in your assembly neither the insane nor the sages remain.
(Insane and Sage: The original word is the Urdu equivalent of insane. The behaviour of a person in ardent love, including such Love of God, is strange and is so selfish that it appears insane to ordinary people. Hence, lovers are also called ‘insane’.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
فکر فلک پيما: آسمان پر سیر کرنے والا فکر۔فرزانے: عقلمند۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 25 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 poem۲۵ / ۸۶