مسلم
زندہ پھر وہ محفل دیرینہ ہو سکتی نہیںشمع سے روشن شب دوشینہ ہوسکتی نہیں
English translation
That old assembly cannot be brought back to life. The yesternight cannot be illuminated with candle.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 18 in “مسلم” (The Muslim) 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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