فلسفہ غم
گو سراپا کیف عشرت ہے شراب زندگیاشک بھی رکھتا ہے دامن میں سحاب زندگی
English translation
Though the wine of life is the embodiment of pleasure; the cloud of life carries tears also in its skirt.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 32 in “فلسفہ غم” (The Philosophy Of Grief) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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