شمع اور شاعر
بے خبر! تو جوہر آئینہء ایام ہےتو زمانے میں خدا کا آخری پیغام ہے
English translation
O imprudent one! You are the essence of time’s mirror: The ultimate message of God in the world you are!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 68 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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