فلسفہ غم
دامن دل بن گیا ہو رزم گاہ خیر و شرراہ کی ظلمت سے ہو مشکل سوئے منزل سفر
English translation
When the heart’s skirt be the battle field of good and evil; when journey to the goal be difficult in road’s darkness;
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 29 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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