خضرراہ
تا خلافت کی بنا دنیا میں ہو پھر استورلا کہیں سے ڈھونڈ کر اسلاف کا قلب و جگر
English translation
To establish the Khilafah’s foundations in the world again; the need is to bring from somewhere the ancestors’ mettle.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 77 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) 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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