قبر

مرقد کا شبستاں بھی اسے راس نہ آیاآرام قلندر کو تہ خاک نہیں ہےخاموشی افلاک تو ہے قبر میں لیکنبے قیدی و پہنائی افلاک نہیں ہے

English translation

A Darvesh feels no rest at all beneath the mound of clods and dust though abysmal dark the grave, its rigours yet bear he must.
In dark and dismal depths of grave silence of skies a. man can sense, but there he can never find environs free and Space.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 1 in “⁨قبر⁩” (The Grave) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

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