خضرراہ
کرمک ناداں! طواف شمع سے آزاد ہواپنی فطرت کے تجلی زار میں آباد ہو
English translation
O simple fire-fly, be free of revolving round the candle and be living in the illuminated place of your own nature!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
کرمک ناداں: بھنورا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 62 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) 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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