فلسفہ غم
مرنے والوں کی جبیں روشن ہے اس ظلمات میںجس طرح تارے چمکتے ہیں اندھیری رات میں
English translation
The foreheads of the dead brighten up in this darkness as stars are shining in the darkness of the night.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 32 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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