بلاد اسلامیہ
پاک اس اجڑے گلستاں کی نہ ہو کیونکر زمیںخانقاہ عظمت اسلام ہے یہ سرزمیں
English translation
Why should not the land of this desolate garden be holy? This region is the shrine of the grandeur of Islam.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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