والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
دفتر ہستی میں تھی زریں ورق تیری حیاتتھی سراپا دیں و دنیا کا سبق تیری حیات
English translation
Your life was written in gold letters in the existence’ book; your life was a full lesson of secular and religious education.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 24 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.
Read it in the poem۲۴ / ۸۶