مرد بزرگ
انجمن میں بھی میسر رہی خلوت اس کوشمع محفل کی طرح سب سے جدا، سب کا رفیق
English translation
In midst of surging throng he keeps aloof for long, like lamp, he lights the hall, but has not mate at all.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 5 in “مرد بزرگ” (The Great Man) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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