کنار راوی

شکست سے یہ کبھی آشنا نہیں ہوتانظر سے چھپتا ہے لیکن فنا نہیں ہوتا

English translation

It never gets acquainted with defeat; it is concealed from sight but is not effaced!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 of 12 in “⁨کنار راوی⁩” (On The Banks Of The Ravi) 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

۱۲ / ۱۲