گورستان شاہی
ہے تو گورستاں مگر یہ خاک گردوں پایہ ہےآہ! اک برگشتہ قسمت قوم کا سرمایہ ہے
English translation
Though a mere cemetery, this dust ranks with the sky. Ah! This is the wealth of an unfortunate nation!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 14 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 poem۱۴ / ۵۸