فلسفہ غم
عشق کچھ محبوب کے مرنے سے مر جاتا نہیںروح میں غم بن کے رہتا ہے، مگر جاتا نہیں
English translation
Love does not die by the beloved’s death; it stays in the soul as grief but does not die.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 18 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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