گورستان شاہی

چاندنی پھیکی ہے اس نظارۂ خاموش میںصبح صادق سو رہی ہے رات کی آغوش میں

English translation

The moon light is pale in this silent panorama. The dawn is sleeping in the lap of the night.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 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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