خفتگان خاک سے استفسار
واں بھی کیا فریاد بلبل پر چمن روتا نہیں؟اس جہاں کی طرح واں بھی درد دل ہوتا نہیں؟
English translation
Does garden not cry at the nightingale's wail there also? Like this world is there no sympathy in that world also?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 18 of 26 in “خفتگان خاک سے استفسار” (Inquiry from the Sleepers of the Grave) 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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