شمع اور شاعر
خاک میں تجھ کو مقدر نے ملایا ہے اگرتو عصا افتاد سے پیدا مثال دانہ کر
English translation
If the destiny has destroyed you completely; from downfall make a new rod like the seed.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 58 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 poem۵۸ / ۸۶