عشق اور موت
یہ پوچھا ترا نام کیا، کام کیا ہےنہیں آنکھ کو دید تیری گوارا
English translation
He asked death: ‘What is the name and work of yours? I do not want to encounter the face of yours’.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 14 of 23 in “عشق اور موت” (Love And Death) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۱۴ / ۲۳