داغ

کھل نہیں سکتی شکایت کے لیے لیکن زباںہے خزاں کا رنگ بھی وجہ قیام گلستاں

English translation

However, the tongue cannot open in complaint; autumn's style is also a prelude to garden's existence.*
* This and the next verse are very artistic expression of logic and coherence in the working of the universe. Life without death is tasteless as the spring without autumn is tasteless.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 22 of 23 in “⁨داغ⁩” (Nawab Mirza Khan Dagh) 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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