گورستان شاہی

ہو چکا گو قوم کی شان جلالی کا ظہورہے مگر باقی ابھی شان جمالی کا ظہور

English translation

The manifestation of this nation’s majesty has passed, but the manifestation of its beauty has not yet passed.
(The 99 attributes of God are grouped into two main classes, known as Jalali (manifesting His Majesty) and Jamali (manifesting His Beauty). Similarly, the attributes of Islam the Din of God are grouped into Jalali and Jamali classes. The period of the rise of Islamic nations exhibited their material grandeur in all the sciences, technologies and arts whose examples abound throughout the Islamic world… Jamali attributes, consisting of the spiritual and esoteric powers of Islam has not been fully established. This aspect of Islam will manifest itself now.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 58 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.

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