شمع اور شاعر
پھر کہیں سے اس کو پیدا کر، بڑی دولت ہے یہزندگی کیسی جو دل بیگانہء پہلو ہوا
English translation
Obtain it from somewhere it is a great wealth; what good is life if the heart unaware of bosom became.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 50 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 poem۵۰ / ۸۶