گورستان شاہی
قبر کی ظلمت میں ہے ان آفتابوں کی چمکجن کے دروازوں پہ رہتا تھا جبیں گستر فلک
English translation
The grave’s darkness holds the brilliance of those suns; at whose thresholds the sky used to remain prostrating.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 18 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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