نانک
شمع حق سے جو منور ہو یہ وہ محفل نہ تھیبارش رحمت ہوئی لیکن زمیں قابل نہ تھی
English translation
The assembly which could be illuminated by Truth’s light was not this; the rain of mercy did come but the soil was not suitable!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 8 in “نانک” (Nanak (reference to Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism)) 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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