والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں

پھول بن کر اپنی تربت سے نکل آتا ہے یہموت سے گویا قبائے زندگی پاتا ہے یہ

English translation

Becoming a flower, it comes out of its grave that is it gets the robe of life from its death.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 60 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 poem

۶۰ / ۸۶