خردہ
اے برادر من ترا از زندگی دادم نشانخواب را مرگ سبک دان مرگ را خواب گران
English translation
Of Life, O brother, I give thee a token to hold and keep; sleep is a lighter death, and Death a heavier sleep.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
اے برادر ! میں تجھے زندگی کا راز بتاتا ہوں ؛ نیند کو سبک موت سمجھ اور موت کو خواب گراں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 of 18 in “خردہ” (Small-scale, detailed) in the section A Picture of Europe, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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