گورستان شاہی

باطن ہر ذرۂ عالم سراپا درد ہےاور خاموشی لب ہستی پہ آہ سرد ہے

English translation

The heart of every speck of the universe is pathos embodied and the silence is a sad sigh on the lips of existence.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 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 poem

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