شمع اور شاعر
نغمہ پیرا ہو کہ یہ ہنگام خاموشی نہیںہے سحر کا آسماں خورشید سے مینا بدوش
English translation
Sing because this is not the time for silence; the dawn’s sky is shouldering the sun like decanter.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
نغمہ پيرا ہو: گانا گاؤ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 43 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 poem۴۳ / ۸۶