بلاد اسلامیہ
خاتم ہستی میں تو تاباں ہے مانند نگیںاپنی عظمت کی ولادت گاہ تھی تیری زمیں
English translation
In the world’s ring you are shining like a gem; your land was the birth place of our grandeur.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
ولادت گاہ: پیدائش کی جگہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 17 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 poem۱۷ / ۲۲