گورستان شاہی

اشک باری کے بہانے ہیں یہ اجڑے بام و درگریہ پیہم سے بینا ہے ہماری چشم تر

English translation

These desolate mansions are excuses for shedding tears; insight has developed in the eye with continuous tears.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 54 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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