مسلمان اور تعلیم جدید
وہ شعلہ روشن ترا ظلمت گریزاں جس سے تھیگھٹ کر ہوا مثل شرر تارے سے بھی کم نور تر
English translation
That bright flame of yours from which darkness escaped now is reduced to a spark, less bright than stars.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 8 in “مسلمان اور تعلیم جدید” (Muslims and Modern Education) 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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