ذوق و شوق
آگ بجھی ہوئی ادھر، ٹوٹی ہوئی طناب ادھرکیا خبر اس مقام سے گزرے ہیں کتنے کارواں
English translation
Ashes of a fire and ropes of tents is all that remains behind: The only imprints that the caravans have left behind as they marched.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 31 in “ذوق و شوق” (Ecstasy) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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