پیام عشق

وجود افراد کا مجازی ہے، ہستی قوم ہے حقیقیفدا ہو ملت پہ یعنی آتش زن طلسم مجاز ہو جا

English translation

The individual's existence is unreal, the nation's existence is real; be devoted to the nation, become destroyer of the unreal's magic.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

آتش زن: آگ لگانے والا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 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

۶ / ۷