شمع اور شاعر
اس چمن میں پیرو بلبل ہو یا تلمیذ گلیا سراپا نالہ بن جا یا نوا پیدا نہ کر
English translation
In this garden be the nightingale’s follower or rose’ pupil; either be all complaint or do not produce any music.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
تلميذ: شاگرد۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 60 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 poem۶۰ / ۸۶