شمع اور شاعر
پردہ دل میں محبت کو ابھی مستور رکھآبر باقی تری ملت کی جمیعت ہے تھی
English translation
The individual is firm by nation’s coherence, otherwise nothing; the wave is only in the ocean, and outside it is nothing.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 52 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 poem۵۲ / ۸۶