میں اورتو
دم زندگی رم زندگی، غم زندگی سم زندگیغم رم نہ کر، سم غم نہ کھا کہ یہی ہے شان قلندری
English translation
Loss of life is its essence; concern for life is its poison. Do not be sad for loss; do not take grief’s poison as this is the way of qalandari!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 9 in “میں اورتو” (Me And You) 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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