فلسفہ غم
آرزو کے خون سے رنگیں ہے دل کی داستاںنغمہ انسانیت کامل نہیں غیر از فغاں
English translation
The heart’s story is coloured with Longing’s blood; the human music is incomplete without lament’s cry.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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