بلاد اسلامیہ
نام لیوا جس کے شاہنشاہ عالم کے ہوئےجانشیں قیصر کے، وارث مسند جم کے ہوئے
English translation
Whose successors became rulers of world’s empires, became successors of Caesar, inheritors of Jam’s throne.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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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