شمع اور شاعر
شعلہ بن کر پھونک دے خاشاک غیر اللہ کوخوف باطل کیا کہ ہے غارت گر باطل بھی تو
English translation
Becoming a flame burn down the rubbish of Godlessness; why are you afraid of the falsehood? The destroyer of falsehood also you are.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
خاشاک: گھاس پھوس۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 67 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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