ماہ نو
گھٹنے بڑھنے کا سماں آنکھوں کو دکھلاتا ہے توہے وطن تیرا کدھر، کس دیس کو جاتا ہے تو
English translation
You show the spectacle of rise and fall to the eyes: Where is your home? To which country are you going?*
* This alludes to the fact that the creation of God is for the equitable use of the entire humanity and not for a particular country. This is what is included in the concept of the super-national Islamic State.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 7 in “ماہ نو” (The Crescent) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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