گورستان شاہی
اس زیاں خانے میں کوئی ملت گردوں وقاررہ نہیں سکتی ابد تک بار دوش روزگار
English translation
In this world no nation however prestigious it may be can continue its existence till the end of time.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 35 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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