والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
علم و حکمت رہزن سامان اشک و آہ ہےیعنی اک الماس کا ٹکڑا دل آگاہ ہے
English translation
Knowledge and wisdom are robbers of tears and sighs’ wealth that is the intelligent heart is a piece of diamond!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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