شمع اور شاعر
راز اس آتش نوائی کا مرے سینے میں دیکھجلوہ تقدیر میرے دل کے آئینے میں دیکھ!
English translation
Look into my breast for the secret of this fiery music. Look into heart’s mirror for destiny’s manifestation!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 77 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 poem۷۷ / ۸۶