شمع اور شاعر
آہ، کس کی جستجو آوارہ رکھتی ہے تجھےراہ تو، رہرو بھی تو، رہبر بھی تو، منزل بھی تو
English translation
Ah! Whose search keeps you aimlessly wandering: The path, the traveler, the guide, as well as the destination you are.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 63 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 poem۶۳ / ۸۶