کرم کتابی
نفہمیدہ ام حکمت زندگی راہمان تیرہ روزم ز بی آفتابی
English translation
But I have not learned anything about life’s mystery, and am just as much in the dark about it as before.’
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Urdu translation
(مگر) میں زندگی کی حکمت نہیں سمجھ سکا؛ اور ابھی تک میرے دن آفتاب کے بغیر تاریک ہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 5 in “کرم کتابی” (The Bookworm) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۵