فلسفہ غم
پستی عالم میں ملنے کو جدا ہوتے ہیں ہمعارضی فرقت کو دائم جان کر روتے ہیں ہم
English translation
In the depths of this world we part to reunite, but we cry considering temporary parting as permanent.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 26 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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