مرزا غالب
اے جہان آباد، اے گہوارہ علم و ہنرہیں سراپا نالہ خاموش تیرے بام و در
English translation
O Jahanabad*! O cradle of learning and art your entire super-structure is a silent lament.
* Abbreviation for Shahjahanabad, which is the original name of Delhi after its construction under the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 of 15 in “مرزا غالب” (Mirza Ghalib) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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