بلاد اسلامیہ

نکہت گل کی طرح پاکیزہ ہے اس کی ہواتربت ایوب انصاری سے آتی ہے صدا

English translation

Its breeze is holy like the fragrance of rose; a voice is calling from the tomb of Ayyub Ansari (R.A.). (Eminent companion of the Holy Prophet S.A.W, who was martyred in a battle for the conquest of Constantinople during the Khilafah of Mu`awiyah R.A.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 14 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

۱۴ / ۲۲