شمع اور شاعر

پھر یہ غوغا ہے کہ لاساقی شراب خانہ سازدل کے ہنگامے مےء مغرب نے کر ڈالے خموش

English translation

There is clamor again for cup-bearer to bring the home-made wine; as the heart’s uproars have been silenced by the West’s wine.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 42 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 poem

۴۲ / ۸۶