ترانہ ملی
دنیا کے بت کدوں میں پہلا وہ گھر خدا کاہم اس کے پاسباں ہیں، وہ پاسباں ہمارا
English translation
Among the world’s temples that first House of God; we are its sentinels, it is the sentinel of ours.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 11 in “ترانہ ملی” (The Muslim National Anthem) 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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