پنچاب کے دہقان سے
بتا کیا تری زندگی کا ہے رازہزاروں برس سے ہے تو خاک باز
English translation
What is this life of yours, tell me its mystery: Trampled in dust is your ages-old history!
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 7 in “پنچاب کے دہقان سے” (To The Punjab Peasant) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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