خضرراہ
زندگی کا راز کیا ہے، سلطنت کیا چیز ہےاور یہ سرمایہ و محنت میں ہے کیسا خروش
English translation
What is the secret of life? What is imperialism? And what is this struggle between labour and capital?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) 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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