حقیقت حسن
ملا جواب کہ تصویر خانہ ہے دنیاشب دراز عدم کا فسانہ ہے دنیا
English translation
The answer was that the world is like a picture gallery. The world is the story of the long night of annihilation.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “حقیقت حسن” (The Reality Of Beauty) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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