نیا شوالا
دنیا کے تیرتھوں سے اونچا ہو اپنا تیرتھدامان آسماں سے اس کا کلس ملا دیں
English translation
Let our shrine be higher than the world's shrines. Let us make its spire as high as the sky.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
تيرتھ: ہندوؤں کا مقدس مقام۔کلس: گنبد کے اوپر کی کلغی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 9 in “نیا شوالا” (The New Temple) 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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