والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
خوگر پرواز کو پرواز میں ڈر کچھ نہیںموت اس گلشن میں جز سنجیدن پر کچھ نہیں
English translation
The one accustomed to flight is not afraid of flight! Death in this garden is nothing but readying for flight!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 63 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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