شمع اور شاعر
فرد قائم ربط ملت سے ہے، تنہا کچھ نہیںموج ہے دریا میں اور بیرون دریا کچھ نہیں
English translation
Your honor depended upon the organization of the Millat; when this organization departed, disgraced world wide you became.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 51 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 poem۵۱ / ۸۶