وطنیت
ہے ترک وطن سنت محبوب الہیدے تو بھی نبوت کی صداقت پہ گواہی
English translation
Renouncing the country is the way of the God’s Beloved;* you should also testify to the Prophethood’s Truth by similar action.
* Allusion to the emigration of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) to Madinah.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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.
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