فلسفہ غم
جوئے سیماب رواں پھٹ کر پریشاں ہو گئیمضطرب بوندوں کی اک دنیا نمایاں ہو گئی
English translation
The river of flowing mercury spread and became scattered; a whole entire world of restless drops became manifest;
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 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 poem۲۳ / ۳۲