گورستان شاہی
کیا یہی ہے ان شہنشاہوں کی عظمت کا مآلجن کی تدبیر جہاں بانی سے ڈرتا تھا زوال
English translation
Is this the end of these emperors’ magnificence; whose diplomatic policies knew no decline?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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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