حرفی چند با امت عربیہ

تیغ ایوبے نگاہ بایزیدگنجہای ھر دو عالم را کلید

English translation

The sword of Ayyubi and the look of Bayazid, the keys to the treasures of both the worlds.
(Ayyubi, i.e. Salahuddin Ayyubi, the hero of the Crusades. Iqbal sometimes employs his name as a model Muslim ruler. Bayazid refers to the famous sufi, Bayazid Bistami It is the basic contention of Iqbal that the sword of Ayyubi and spiritual insight of Bayazid should be present in a single person. The idea of bifurcation of State and Church is foreign to the spirit of Islam. The term Faqr, in Iqbal, represents this integrative characteristic.)

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

تیغ ایوبی ہو یا نگاہ بایزید جو دونوں جہانوں کی کنجیاں ہیں۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 11 of 39 in “⁨حرفی چند با امت عربیہ⁩” (A Few Words to the Arab Nation), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (⁨پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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