تہذیب حاضر
فروغ شمع نو سے بزم مسلم جگمگا اٹھیمگر کہتی ہے پروانوں سے میری کہنہ ادراکی
English translation
Muslim’s assembly is glittering with the new candle’s light, but my old time wisdom is saying this to the moths:
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
کہنہ ادراکی: پختہ سمجھ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 8 in “تہذیب حاضر” (The Present Civilization) 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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