شمع اور شاعر
آنکھ کو بیدار کر دے وعدہ دیدار سےزندہ کر دے دل کو سوز جوہر گفتار سے
English translation
Awaken the eye with the promise of the Beloved’s Sight. Bring the heart to life with the warmth of speech’s skill.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
سوز جوہر گفتار: قلم کی گرمی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 46 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 poem۴۶ / ۸۶