گورستان شاہی

آہ! مسلم بھی زمانے سے یونہی رخصت ہواآسماں سے ابر آذاری اٹھا، برسا، گیا

English translation

Ah! The Muslim also from the world similarly departed; the Aziri* cloud appeared over the horizon, rained and departed.
(Azar: Sixth month of the Greek or Syrian year corresponding to the month of March.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 42 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

۴۲ / ۵۸