پیام عشق

غرض ہے پیکار زندگی سے کمال پائے ہلال تیراجہاں کا فرض قدیم ہے تو، ادا مثال نماز ہو جا

English translation

The aim of life's struggle is perfection of your Crescent's grandeur. You are the world's oldest Divine Command, be fulfilled like prayer.
(This is a reminder to the Muslim Ummah that they are the vice gerents of God on earth and for that reason are charged with the responsibility of establishing the sovereignty of God on earth. It is a reminder to them that they should rise to their responsibilities and achieve what is expected of them.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 7 in “⁨پیام عشق⁩” (Message of Love) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۳ / ۷