گورستان شاہی

خواب گہ شاہوں کی ہے یہ منزل حسرت فزادیدۂ عبرت! خراج اشک گلگوں کر ادا

English translation

This grief-stricken stage is the resting place of kings; O admonished eye! Pay the tribute of rosy tears.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 13 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.

Read it in the poem

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