شمع اور شاعر

کانپتا ہے دل ترا اندیشہء طوفاں سے کیاناخدا تو، بحر تو، کشتی بھی تو، ساحل بھی تو

English translation

Why is your heart trembling with the fear of the storm? The sailor, the ocean, the boat, as well as the sea-shore you are.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 64 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 poem

۶۴ / ۸۶