فلسفہ غم

جس کا جام دل شکست غم سے ہے ناآشناجو سدا مست شراب عیش و عشرت ہی رہا

English translation

Whose heart’s cup does not know breaking with grief! Who always remained ecstatic with pleasure and exhilaration!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 11 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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