شمع اور شاعر
وہ جگر سوزی نہیں، وہ شعلہ آشامی نہیںفائدہ پھر کیا جو گرد شمع پروانے رہے
English translation
Gone is that burning of Love, gone is that heart’s pathos; what good it is if the moths round the candle did remain?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 26 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.
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