خفتگان خاک سے استفسار
کیا عوض رفتار کے اس دیس میں پرواز ہے؟موت کہتے ہیں جسے اہل زمیں، کیا راز ہے؟
English translation
Has walking given way to speedy flying in that world? What is the secret of what is called death by denizens of this world?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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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