گورستان شاہی
اک ذرا سا ابر کا ٹکڑا ہے، جو مہتاب تھاآخری آنسو ٹپک جانے میں ہو جس کی فنا
English translation
What was the moon is a mere piece of cloud; whose destruction is in the last tear drop.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 33 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.
Read it in the poem۳۳ / ۵۸