بلاد اسلامیہ

سرزمیں دلی کی مسجود دل غم دیدہ ہےذرے ذرے میں لہو اسلاف کا خوابیدہ ہے

English translation

The region of Delhi is adored by my grieved heart; in every speck of it the ancestors’ blood is asleep.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 22 in “⁨بلاد اسلامیہ⁩” (The Islamic Cities) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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