شمع اور شاعر
تو ہی ناداں چند کلیوں پر قناعت کر گیاورنہ گلشن میں علاج تنگی داماں بھی ہے
English translation
O ignorant one! Only you became contented with some flower buds; otherwise in the rose-garden there is also cure for the receiver’s small capacity!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 74 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 poem۷۴ / ۸۶