نوائے غم
جس طرح رفعت شبنم ہے مذاق رم سےمیری فطرت کی بلندی ہے نوائے غم سے
English translation
Just as dew's elegance depends upon the taste for racing; the elegance of my nature depends upon grief's melodies!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 of 8 in “نوائے غم” (The Song Of Grief) 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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