شمع اور شاعر

کیفیت باقی پرانے کوہ و صحرا میں نہیںہے جنوں تیرا نیا، پیدا نیا ویرانہ کر

English translation

No joy remains in the old mountains and wilderness; your love is new, you should create new wilderness.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 57 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 poem

۵۷ / ۸۶