بلاد اسلامیہ
ہے اگر قومیت اسلام پابند مقامہند ہی بنیاد ہے اس کی، نہ فارس ہے، نہ شام
English translation
If the Muslim nationalism is restricted to place; neither India nor Persia nor Syria is its base.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 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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