گورستان شاہی
روح، مشت خاک میں زحمت کش بیداد ہےکوچہ گرد نے ہوا جس دم نفس، فریاد ہے
English translation
The soul in the handful of dust* is enduring injustice; when breath enters non-existence’ flute it is a mere complaint.
* Allusion to the human body)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 25 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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