گورستان شاہی
بادشاہوں کی بھی کشت عمر کا حاصل ہے گورجادہ عظمت کی گویا آخری منزل ہے گور
English translation
The result of kings’ life-efforts also is the grave. The last stage on path of magnificence is the grave.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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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