شمع اور شاعر
اپنی اصلیت پہ قائم تھا تو جمعیت بھی تھیچھوڑ کر گل کو پریشاں کاروان بو ہوا
English translation
When you stood firm in your purity, you had the nation also; caravan of fragrance after leaving the rose scattered became.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
جمعيت: اتحاد۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 48 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 poem۴۸ / ۸۶