نپولین کے مزار پر
ہے مگر فرصت کردار نفس یا دو نفسعوض یک دو نفس قبر کی شب ہائے دراز!
English translation
But the body’s valour and the power of will, after a moment’s pause, are swallowed up by the grave.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “نپولین کے مزار پر” (At Napoleon’s Tomb) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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