خفتگان خاک سے استفسار
آہ! وہ کشور بھی تاریکی سے کیا معمور ہے؟یا محبت کی تجلی سے سراپا نور ہے؟
English translation
Ah! Is that land also filled with darkness? Or with Love's light is completely illuminated?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
معمور: بھری ہوئی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 25 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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