فلسفہ غم
طائر دل کے لیے غم شہپر پرواز ہےراز ہے انساں کا دل غم انکشاف راز ہے
English translation
For the heart’s bird grief is the strongest feather. The human heart is a secret whose disclosure is grief.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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