گورستان شاہی
آہ! کیا آئے ریاض دہر میں ہم، کیا گئےزندگی کی شاخ سے پھوٹے، کھلے، مرجھا گئے
English translation
Ah! For what purpose did we come in the world, for what purpose did we go away! Sprouted from the life’s branch, blossomed, faded away.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 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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