شمع اور شاعر
پھونک ڈالا ہے مری آتش نوائی نے مجھےاورمیری زندگانی کا یہی ساماں بھی ہے
English translation
My fiery music has burnt me down and this is the very means of my life!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 76 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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