فلسفہ غم
دیدہ بینا میں داغ غم چراغ سینہ ہےروح کو سامان زینت آہ کا آئینہ ہے
English translation
For the discerning eye the grief’s scar is insight; for the soul sigh’s mirror is beauty’s accompaniment.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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