فلسفہ غم
غم جوانی کو جگا دیتا ہے لطف خواب سےساز یہ بیدار ہوتا ہے اسی مضراب سے
English translation
Youth is awakened from sleep’s pleasure by grief; this orchestra wakes up with this plectrum alone.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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