فلسفہ غم
غم نہیں غم، روح کا اک نغمہء خاموش ہےجو سرود بربط ہستی سے ہم آغوش ہے
English translation
Grief is not distress, but is the soul’s silent song, which is locked in the embrace of existence’ harp.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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