والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
وہ جواں، قامت میں ہے جو صورت سرو بلندتیری خدمت سے ہوا جو مجھ سے بڑھ کر بہرہ مند
English translation
That youth who equals the slender cypress in stature, * who became more fortunate in serving you than me.
* Allusion to his brother, which extends up to the end of this stanza.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 26 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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