اہرام مصر
اہرام کی عظمت سے نگوں سار ہیں افلاککس ہاتھ نے کھینچی ابدےت کی یہ تصویر!
English translation
The grandeur of these pyramids puts lofty heavens to disgrace, what hand did build, design and frame, they seem attired in lasting grace?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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