گورستان شاہی

آہ! جولاں گاہ عالم گیر یعنی وہ حصاردوش پر اپنے اٹھائے سیکڑوں صدیوں کا بار

English translation

Ah! That fort, that universal mustering ground is carrying millennia’s weight on its shoulders.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 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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