بلاد اسلامیہ
بجھ کے بزم ملت بیضا پریشاں کر گئیاور دیا تہذیب حاضر کا فروزاں کر گئی
English translation
Extinguishing of this lamp dispersed the assembly of Millat-i-Baidha and lighted the lamp of the present day’s materialistic civilization.
(Millat-i-Baidha: It means ‘the nation like the illuminated egg’, which comes from the bright egg-shaped mark on the palm of Mosa A.S. Conferred by God at Mount Toor (The Holy Qur’an 27:12). ‘Allamah Iqbal has frequently used this name for the Muslim Ummah.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
فروزاں: روشن۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 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.
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