بلاد اسلامیہ
خاک اس بستی کی ہو کیونکر نہ ہمدوش ارمجس نے دیکھے جانشینان پیمبر کے قدم
English translation
Why should not the dust of this habitation be equivalent to Iram; which witnessed the footsteps of the Prophet’s successors.
(Iram: This was a famous garden in Yemen, established on the model of Paradise by Shaddad, an ancient king. This word is also used for Paradise.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
ہمدوش ارم: بہشت کی ہم پلّہ۔ (ارم: شدّاد کی بنائی ہوئی بہشت۔)
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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.
Read it in the poem۷ / ۲۲