گورستان شاہی
ہے نگین دہر کی زینت ہمیشہ نام نومادر گیتی رہی آبستن اقوام نو
English translation
The beauty of world’s jewel is in ever-changing names. The mother earth has always remained expecting new nations!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 38 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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