ارواح فرعون و کشنر را

قعر او یک وادی بیرنگ و بووادے تاریکی او تو بہ تو

English translation

Its depths were a valley without colour and scent, a valley whose darkness was fold on fold.

Urdu translation

اس کی تہ ایک بے رنگ و بو وادی تھی؛ جس کے اندر تاریکی کے پردے پڑے ہوئے تھے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 20 of 41 in “⁨ارواح فرعون و کشنر را⁩” (We Plunge Into The Sea Of Venus And Behold The Spirits Of Pharaoh And Kitchener) in the section The Sphere of Venus, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Javid Nama (⁨جاوید نامہ⁩), published in 1932.

Read it in the poem

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