فلسفہ غم
حادثات غم سے ہے انساں کی فطرت کو کمالغازہ ہے آئینہء دل کے لیے گرد ملال
English translation
Incidents of grief give perfection to human nature; the dust of anguish is rouge for the heart’s mirror.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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