شمع اور شاعر
زندگی قطرے کی سکھلاتی ہے اسرار حیاتیہ کبھی گوہر، کبھی شبنم، کبھی آنسو ہوا
English translation
The life of the drop has lessons of the secrets of life; sometimes pearl, sometimes dew, sometimes tear it became.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 49 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 poem۴۹ / ۸۶