والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں

خفتگان لالہ زار و کوہسار و رودبادہوتے ہیں آخر عروس زندگی سے ہمکنار

English translation

Those who in rose beds, mountains and brooks were sleeping; at long last in the morning the bride of life are embracing.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 76 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

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