مسعود مرحوم
خیال جادہ و منزل فسانہ و افسوںکہ زندگی ہے سراپا رحیل بے مقصود
English translation
The thought of Aim and Stays, my fiction’s same; this life looks a journey sanz any aim.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
فسانہ: خیالی کہانی۔جادہ: راستہ۔رحیل: سفر۔افسوں: جادو۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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