گورستان شاہی

وادی گل، خاک صحرا کو بنا سکتا ہے یہخواب سے امید دہقاں کو جگا سکتا ہے یہ

English translation

It can change the dry wilderness to a flowery vale; it can change the farmer’s hope from slumber to awakening.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 57 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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