شمع اور شاعر
وائے ناکامی! متاع کارواں جاتا رہاکارواں کے دل سے احساس زیاں جاتا رہا
English translation
How disappointing! The caravan’s wealth is gone. The feeling of loss from caravan’s heart is gone.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
احساس زياں: نقصان کا احساس۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 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 poem۳۰ / ۸۶