والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
سردی مرقد سے بھی افسردہ ہو سکتا نہیںخاک میں دب کر بھی اپنا سوز کھو سکتا نہیں
English translation
Even with the grave’s cold it cannot become dispirited; even by being buried under soil it cannot become cold!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 59 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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