کھل جب چمن میں کتب خانۂ گل

نہیں زندگی سلسلہ روز و شب کانہیں زندگی مستی و نیم خوابی

English translation

The life means not the link of night and day, neither life a ‘booze’ or drowsiness way.

Translated by Q.A. Kabir

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 7 in “⁨کھل جب چمن میں کتب خانۂ گل⁩” (Khul jab chaman mein kutub khanaaye gul) in the section The Amanuensis of Mullah Zaighum, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (⁨ارمغانِ حجاز⁩), published in 1938.

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