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.

Read it in the poem

۸ / ۱۲