تصویر درد
نہ سمجھو گے تو مٹ جائو گے اے ہندوستاں والوتمھاری داستاں تک بھی نہ ہو گی داستانوں میں
English translation
You will be annihilated if you do not understand O people of India! Even your tales will disappear from the world’s chronicles. (Isn’t it more relevant for Muslims of today’s Pakistan than it was for Indian Muslims about a century ago?)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 of 69 in “تصویر درد” (Picture of Pain) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۲۷ / ۶۹