فلسفہ غم

خضر ہمت ہو گیا ہو آرزو سے گوشہ گیرفکر جب عاجز ہو اور خاموش آواز ضمیر

English translation

When the Khizar of courage may be resigned from longing; when Intellect be helpless and conscience a silent voice;

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 30 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.

Read it in the poem

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