فلسفہ غم
رخصت محبوب کا مقصد فنا ہوتا اگرجوش الفت بھی دل عاشق سے کر جاتا سفر
English translation
If annihilation had been intended for the departed beloved; Love’s zeal would have also departed from the Lover’s heart.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 17 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 poem۱۷ / ۳۲