فلسفہ غم
ہجر، ان قطروں کو لیکن وصل کی تعلیم ہےدو قدم پر پھر وہی جو مثل تار سیم ہے
English translation
But separation is the training for reunion to those drops, after a while the same river is running like a silver string.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 24 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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