بلاد اسلامیہ
جب تلک باقی ہے تو دنیا میں، باقی ہم بھی ہیںصبح ہے تو اس چمن میں گوہر شبنم بھی ہیں
English translation
As long as you exist, we will also flourish in the world; you are the morning of this garden we are the dew’s pearls.
(This is a beautiful metaphor of the morning and its beauty created by the morning’s dew whose droplets shine like pearls. Just as the morning dew lends beauty to the morning, Muslims added beauty to the world (metaphor of a garden used) by shining like dew drops.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 22 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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