شمع اور شاعر
دیکھ لو گے سطوت رفتار دریا کا مآلموج مضطر ہی اسے زنجیر پا ہو جائے گی
English translation
You will see the result of the glory of the river’s flow; the restless wave itself will become its ankle’s chain!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 82 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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