فلسفہ غم
مرنے والے مرتے ہیں لیکن فنا ہوتے نہیںیہ حقیقت میں کبھی ہم سے جدا ہوتے نہیں
English translation
Though the dead do die they do not perish; really they do not get separated from us.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 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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