فلسفہ غم
عقل جس دم دہر کی آفات میں محصور ہویا جوانی کی اندھیری رات میں مستور ہو
English translation
When Intellect be surrounded in worldly calamities, or when it be besieged in the dreary night of youth;
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 28 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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