حقیقت حسن
خدا سے حسن نے اک روز یہ سوال کیاجہاں میں کیوں نہ مجھے تو نے لازوال کیا
English translation
Beauty one day put this question to God: Why did you not make me eternal in the world?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 7 in “حقیقت حسن” (The Reality Of Beauty) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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