فلسفہ غم

کلفت غم گرچہ اس کے روز و شب سے دور ہےزندگی کا راز اس کی آنکھ سے مستور ہے

English translation

Though grief’s affliction is far from his life; the secret of life is concealed from his eyes.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 13 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.

Read it in the poem

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