شمع اور شاعر
جن کے ہنگاموں سے تھے آباد ویرانے کبھیشہر ان کے مٹ گئے آبادیاں بن ہو گئیں
English translation
With whose activities the wilderness was once flourishing; their cities are wiped out, habitations desolate have become.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 31 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 poem۳۱ / ۸۶