والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
نور فطرت ظلمت پیکر کا زندانی نہیںتنگ ایسا حلقہء افکار انسانی نہیں
English translation
The light of nature is not imprisoned in body’s darkness; the expanse of the human thought is not so narrow.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 83 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 poem۸۳ / ۸۶