والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
جب ترے دامن میں پلتی تھی وہ جان ناتواںبات سے اچھی طرح محرم نہ تھی جس کی زباں
English translation
When that feeble soul was being nurtured by your side, whose tongue was not adequately familiar with talking.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 86 in “والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں” (In Memory Of Late Mother) 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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