کرمک شبتاب
در تیرہ شبان مشعل مرغان شب استیآن سوز چہ سوز است کہ در تاب و تب استیگرم طلب استی
English translation
You are a torch for birds that in the evening fly to rest; but what and whence this restless passion burning in your breast, which keeps you in unceasing quest?
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 9 in “کرمک شبتاب” (The Glow-Worm) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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