اہرام مصر
اس دشت جگر تاب کی خاموش فضا میںفطرت نے فقط ریت کے ٹیلے کیے تعمیر
English translation
The quiet environs of this waste whose intense heat scalds the heart: In forming only dunes of sand Nature has displayed its Art.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “اہرام مصر” (The Pyramids Of Egypt) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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