شمع اور شاعر
رو رہی ہے آج اک ٹوٹی ہوئی مینا اسےکل تلک گردش میں جس ساقی کے پیمانے رہے
English translation
Today a broken decanter is crying for the cup-bearer; whose goblets in circulation till yesterday did remain.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
مينا: صراحی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 28 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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