گورستان شاہی
شورش بزم طرب کیا، عود کی تقریر کیادرد مندان جہاں کا نالۂ شب گیر کیا
English translation
Neither the happy assembly’s commotion nor the genius’ talk; not even the wailing people’s whole night’s compassion!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 22 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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