عالم برزخ
آہ، ظالم! تو جہاں میں بندہ محکوم تھاناکمیں نہ سمجھی تھی کہ ہے کیوں خاک میری سوز
English translation
The Grave (to her Dead): O fool in this world you were the men slave, now I follow why pinched me the grave.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
سوز ناک: جلن والی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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