رات اور شاعر
بستی زمیں کی کیسی ہنگامہ آفریں ہےیوں سو گئی ہے جیسے آباد ہی نہیں ہے
English translation
How tumultuous the habitation of the earth is; has fallen asleep as if it not even inhabited is.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 14 in “رات اور شاعر” (The Night And The Poet) 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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