عشق اور موت

گری اس تبسم کی بجلی اجل پراندھیرے کا ہو نور میں کیا گزارا

English translation

The thunder of such smile descended on death: How can darkness stay in front of such light?

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 22 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 poem

۲۲ / ۲۳