پیام
شعلہ بودیم، شکستیم و شرر گردیدیمصاحب ذوق و تمنا و نظر گردیدیم
English translation
We were a flame; we flickered, broke down and became a spark: And since then we burn fitfully, with yearnings vague and dark.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Urdu translation
ہم شعلہ تھے، ٹوٹے اور شرر بن گئے ، صاحب ذوق صاحب تمنا اور صاحب نظر بن گئے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 25 of 45 in “پیام” (A Message (To The West)) in the section A Picture of Europe, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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