عرض حال مصنف بحضور رحمة للعالمین
حیف چون او را سرآید روزگارپیکرش را دیر گیرد در کنار
English translation
O the bitter shame if, when his earthly days are at an end, a pagan shrine receives his mortal bones.
Urdu translation
صد حیف کہ جب اس کا آخری وقت آئے تو اس کے بدن کو بتخانہ اپنے پہلو میں جگہ دے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 59 of 65 in “عرض حال مصنف بحضور رحمة للعالمین” (The Author’s Memorial To Him Who Is A Mercy To All Living Beings) in the section Summary of the Purport of the Poem, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (رموزِ بیخودی), published in 1918.
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