شمع اور شاعر
دل کی کیفیت ہے پیدا پردہء تقریر میںکسوت مینا میں مے مستور بھی، عریاں بھی ہے
English translation
The heart’s state is produced in the speech’s curtain; in decanter’s veil the wine is apparent as well as veiled.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
کسوت مينا: صراحی کا لباس یعنی پردہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 75 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 poem۷۵ / ۸۶