شمع اور شاعر
آشنا اپنی حقیقت سے ہو اے دہقاں ذرادانہ تو، کھیتی بھی تو، باراں بھی تو، حاصل بھی تو
English translation
Become somewhat acquainted with your own reality O farmer! The grain, the cultivation, the rain, as well as the produce you are.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 62 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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