فلسفہ غم
آئنہ روشن ہے اس کا صورت رخسار حورگر کے وادی کی چٹانوں پر یہ ہو جاتا ہے چور
English translation
Its mirror is bright like the Houri’s cheek, but falling on valley’s rocks it is shattered.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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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