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.
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