والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
آسماں مجبور ہے، شمس و قمر مجبور ہیںانجم سیماب پا رفتار پر مجبور ہیں
English translation
The sky, the sun and the moon all are helpless; the fast moving stars are compelled to moving.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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