الوقت سیف
مسلمے؟ آزاد این زنار باششمع بزم ملت احرار باش
English translation
Art thou a Muslim? Then cast off this girdle! Be a candle to the feast of the religion of the free!
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
تو مسلم ہے اس زنّار سے آزاد ہو؛ ملّت احرار کی بزم کی شمع بن۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 of 61 in “الوقت سیف” (Time Is A Sword), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرارِ خودی), published in 1915.
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