شمع اور شاعر
اپنی اصلیت سے ہو آگاہ اے غافل کہ توقطرہ ہے، لیکن مثال بحر بے پایاں بھی ہے
English translation
O imprudent one! Be aware of your own reality as though you are only a drop your reality is also like the boundless ocean.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 69 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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