وطنیت
ان تازہ خداوں میں بڑا سب سے وطن ہےجو پیرہن اس کا ہے، وہ مذہب کا کفن ہے
English translation
Country is the biggest among these new gods! What is its shirt is the shroud of Din.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
پيرہن: لباس۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 12 in “وطنیت” (Nationalism) 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 poem۳ / ۱۲