شمع اور شاعر

وائے نادانی کہ تو محتاج ساقی ہو گیامے بھی تو، مینا بھی تو، ساقی بھی تو، محفل بھی تو

English translation

Woe foolishness! You are in need of the cup-bearer: The wine, the decanter, the cup-bearer, as well as the assembly you are.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 66 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

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