عالم برزخ
تیری میت سے مری تاریکیاں تاریک ترتیری میت سے زمیں کا پردئہ ناموس چاک
English translation
My gloom from thy body added more gloom, the veil of Earth’s honour in rags did loom.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
پردئہ ناموس: عزت کا پردہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 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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