شفاخانہ حجاز
تلخابہ اجل میں جو عاشق کو مل گیاپایا نہ خضر نے مے عمر دراز میں
English translation
What the Lover has obtained in the position of death; Khizar could not obtain in the wine of eternal life.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 8 in “شفاخانہ حجاز” (The Hospital Of Hijaz) 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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