شمع اور شاعر
شمع کو بھی ہو ذرا معلوم انجام ستمصرف تعمیر سحر خاکستر پروانہ کر
English translation
The candle should also know the result of atrocities; make the moth’s ashes restorer of the morning.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 55 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 poem۵۵ / ۸۶