بلاد اسلامیہ
قبر اس تہذیب کی یہ سر زمین پاک ہےجس سے تاک گلشن یورپ کی رگ نم ناک ہے
English translation
This holy region is the grave of that civilization with which the life blood still exists in the veins of Europe’s vines.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
تاک: انگور۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 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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