فلسفہ غم
ایک بھی پتی اگر کم ہو تو وہ گل ہی نہیںجو خزاں نادیدہ ہو بلبل، وہ بلبل ہی نہیں
English translation
By losing even a single petal the rose ceases to be rose; if the nightingale is unaware of autumn it ceases to be nightingale.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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