والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
قلب انسانی میں رقص عیش و غم رہتا نہیںنغمہ رہ جاتا ہے، لطف زیروبم رہتا نہیں
English translation
The dance of pleasure and grief does not remain in the human heart; the song remains but the pleasure of treble and bass does not remain.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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