شمع اور شاعر
شام غم لیکن خبر دیتی ہے صبح عید کیظلمت شب میں نظر آئی کرن امید کی
English translation
However, the grief’s night gives the message of Eid’s morning; in the darkness of the night the ray of hope has appeared.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 38 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 poem۳۸ / ۸۶