کیا کہوں اپنے چمن سے میں جدا کیونکر ہوا

موت کا نسخہ ابھی باقی ہے اے درد فراق!چارہ گر دیوانہ ہے، میں لا دوا کیونکر ہوا

English translation

Death as a recipe still remains, O separation's pathos! The physician is insane, how I deemed incurable was?*
* The highest reward for piety is to witness the countenance of God and the persons alive to this human need pine for it. Lack of the fulfillment of this need and longing is a malady, which can be cured in this life as mentioned in the previous verse. However, failing that, it can be cured after death as said in this verse.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 of 10 in “⁨کیا کہوں اپنے چمن سے میں جدا کیونکر ہوا⁩” (Kya kahoon apne chaman se main juda kyun kar hua) in the section The Ghazals 1, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

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