بلاد اسلامیہ
خطہ قسطنطنیہ یعنی قیصر کا دیارمہدی امت کی سطوت کا نشان پائدار
English translation
The tract of Constantinople that is the Caesar’s city; the perpetual banner of the grandeur of the Ummah’s Mahdi.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
مہدي امت: ملّت کو ہدایت کرنے والا۔سطوت: شان و شکوہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 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 poem۱۲ / ۲۲