گورستان شاہی
گو سکوں ممکن نہیں عالم میں اختر کے لیےفاتحہ خوانی کو یہ ٹھہرا ہے دم بھر کے لیے
English translation
Though quiescence of the star is not possible in the universe; it has stopped momentarily for saying prayer for the dead.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 58 in “گورستان شاہی” (The Royal Cemetery) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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