اﷲالصمد
تا کجا طوف چراغ محفلیز آتش خود سوز اگر داری دلی
English translation
How long this fluttering about the flame of party lanterns? If thou hast a heart within thy breast, with thine own ardour burn!
Urdu translation
کب تک چراغ محفل کا طواف کرے گا؛ اگر دل رکھتا ہے تو اپنی آگ میں جل۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 46 of 50 in “اﷲالصمد” (‘God, The Self-Subsistent’) in the section Summary of the Purport of the Poem, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (رموزِ بیخودی), published in 1918.
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