شمع اور شاعر
مجھ کو جو موج نفس دیتی ہے پیغام اجللب اسی موج نفس سے ہے نوا پیرا ترا
English translation
CANDLE:
The blow of breath which gives me the message of death; by the same blow of breath your lip is melodious.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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.
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