Shama, the bright candle, the eternal enchantress in Urdu poetry that claims the lives of hundreds of moths, her victims, came into AB's life to illume it with love. |
Live in the sunshine, don't live in the gloom, Carry some gladness the world to illume. |
Can one illume a leaden sky,Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high,Not one funereal glimmer pale? |
Even if you have only one light for ten darknesses, it will be enough to illume them all. |
I admired the condensed wisdom of this, but, like experience, it only serves to illume the path over which I have passed. |
At night there is no light in this building, but searchlights from distant points illume the splendid dome and the colonnades. |