گورستان شاہی
اے ہوس! خوں رو کہ ہے یہ زندگی بے اعتباریہ شرارے کا تبسم، یہ خس آتش سوار
English translation
O ambition! Shed tears of blood as this life is unreliable; it is the smile of the spark, it is the flammable straw.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 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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