والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں
ہے لحد اس قوت آشفتہ کی شیرازہ بندڈالتی ہے گردن گردوں میں جو اپنی کمند
English translation
Grave is the organizer of its scattered powers, which is throwing its rope-ladder round sky’s neck.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 61 of 86 in “والدہ مرحومہ کی یاد میں” (In Memory Of Late Mother) 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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