شمع اور شاعر
دیکھ آ کر کوچہء چاک گریباں میں کبھیقیس تو، لیلی بھی تو، صحرا بھی تو، محمل بھی تو
English translation
Come and look some time in the lane of the torn collars Qais, Lailah, the wilderness as well as the litter on the camel you are.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
کوچہء چاک گريباں: مراد ہے عاشقوں کی گلی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 65 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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