حقیقت حسن
ہوئی ہے رنگ تغیر سے جب نمود اس کیوہی حسیں ہے حقیقت زوال ہے جس کی
English translation
As the nature of change is the basis of its display; only that is beautiful whose reality is decline.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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