فلسفہ غم
نہر جو تھی، اس کے گوہر پیارے پیارے بن گئےیعنی اس افتاد سے پانی کے تارے بن گئے
English translation
The river’s pearls ever more beautiful became; that is by this fall they water’s stars became.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 22 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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