والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
جوہر انساں عدم سے آشنا ہوتا نہیںآنکھ سے غائب تو ہوتا ہے،فنا ہوتا نہیں
English translation
The essence of Man does not become annihilated; he disappears from sight but is not annihilated.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 70 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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