فلسفہ غم
شام جس کی آشنائے نالہء 'یا رب' نہیںجلوہ پیرا جس کی شب میں اشک کے کوکب نہیں
English translation
Whose night is not acquainted with ‘Ya Rab’s’* plaint! Whose night does not manifest the stars of tears!
(This expression is used by true believers in the hour of their distress and trial.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 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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