بلاد اسلامیہ
سوتے ہیں اس خاک میں خیر الامم کے تاجدارنظم عالم کا رہا جن کی حکومت پر مدار
English translation
Kings of the Khair al-Umam are asleep in this land; dependent on whose rule remained the world order.
(Khair al-Umam: The title of the Muslim Ummah as is conferred on them by the Holy Qur’an 3:110.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
خير الامم: امتوں میں سب سے بہتر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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