عشق اور موت

بقا کو جو دیکھا فنا ہو گئی وہقضا تھی شکار قضا ہو گئی وہ

English translation

On seeing eternity to death it fell: Death it was, to death it fell.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 23 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

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