عشرت امروز
شباب، آہ! کہاں تک امیدوار رہےوہ عیش، عیش نہیں، جس کا انتظار رہے
English translation
Ah! How long should youth linger in hope; joy is not joy for which you remain waiting.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 7 in “عشرت امروز” (The Delight of Today) 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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