والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
عمر بھر تیری محبت میری خدمت گر رہیمیں تری خدمت کے قابل جب ہوا تو چل بسی
English translation
Your love remained in my service for your whole life; when I was able to serve you, you did not survive.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 25 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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