عالم برزخ
کیا شے ہے، کس امروز کا فردا ہے قیامتاے میرے شبستاں کہن! کیا ہے قیامت؟
English translation
A Dead to his grave:
Of which today’s next would be doomsday? O my old chamber! What is doomsday?
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
فردا: آنے والا کل۔امروز: آج۔شبستاں: رات گزارنے کی جگہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 15 in “عالم برزخ” (The Purgatory) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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