شمع اور شاعر
نقد خودداری بہائے بادہء اغیار تھیپھر دکاں تیری ہے لبریز صدائے نائو نوش
English translation
Wealth of self-respect was the price for other’s wine; now your shop is again full of calls for the carousal.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
صدائے نائو نوش: شراب نوشی کے وقت کا شور و غل۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 40 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 poem۴۰ / ۸۶