فلسفہ غم
موج غم پر رقص کرتا ہے حباب زندگیہے 'الم' کا سورہ بھی جزو کتاب زندگی
English translation
The bubble of life dances on the wave of grief; ‘Alam’s’ Surah* is also part of the Book of Life.
(Allusion to the Holy Qur’an: 94: 5-6.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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