شمع اور شاعر

آنکھ جو کچھ دیکھتی ہے، لب پہ آ سکتا نہیںمحو حیرت ہوں کہ دنیا کیا سے کیا ہو جائے گی

English translation

Whatever the eye is seeing cannot be described by the lips; I am lost in amazement as to what the world will become!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 85 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 poem

۸۵ / ۸۶