پنچاب کے دہقان سے

بتان شعوب و قبائل کو توڑرسوم کہن کے سلاسل کو توڑ

English translation

Break all the idols of tribe and of caste; break the old customs that fetter men fast.

Word meanings

سلاسل: زنجیریں۔شعوب: بڑے قبیلے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 7 in “⁨پنچاب کے دہقان سے⁩” (To The Punjab Peasant) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

Read it in the poem

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