مسعود مرحوم
زوال علم و ہنر مرگ ناگہاں اس کیوہ کارواں کا متاع گراں بہا مسعود!
English translation
His death to knowledge a fall and decay, a great wealth he was for caravan’s stay.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
مرگ ناگہاں: اچانک موت۔متاع گراں بہا: بیش قیمت دولت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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