شمع اور شاعر
سینہ ہے تیرا امیں اس کے پیام ناز کاجو نظام دہر میں پیدا بھی ہے، پنہاں بھی ہے
English translation
Your breast is custodian of the love’s message of the one who is Apparent as well as Hidden in the universe’ system.
(The Apparent One, The Concealed One: These are the attributes of Allah, This verse means that as a Muslim you are the repository of the treasures of the last message of God.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 71 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 poem۷۱ / ۸۶