عالم برزخ
مر کے جی اٹھنا فقط آزاد مردوں کا ہے کامگرچہ ہر ذی روح کی منزل ہے آغوش لحد
English translation
Would rise from graves the free men alone, though each man’s abode is the grave lone.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
ذي روح: روح رکھنے والا، انسان۔آغوش لحد: قبر کی آغوش۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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