مسعود مرحوم
خودی ہے زندہ تو ہے موت اک مقام حیاتکہ عشق موت سے کرتا ہے امتحان ثبات
English translation
With self’s ‘live’ the death’ a place for rest with death the love makes its permanence test.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 of 21 in “مسعود مرحوم” (The Late Masood) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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