کفر واسلام
شعلہ نمرود ہے روشن زمانے میں تو کیاشمع خود رامی گدازد درمیان انجمننور ما چوں آتش سنگ از نظر پنہاں خوش است
English translation
What if the flame of Namrud is alight in the world?
The candle melts itself in the midst of the assembly; my light like the stone’s spark is better if concealed.’
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 7 in “کفر واسلام” (Infidelity And Islam) 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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