حرفی چند با امت عربیہ
بانگ تکبیر و صلوت و حرب و ضرباندر آن غوغا گشاد شرق و غرب
English translation
Your takbir, your prayer and your war: on these depend the fate of East and West.
(This in a nutshell is Iqbal’s advice to the Muslim of today, that he should aspire to seek the welfare of man, both material and spiritual, that be should endeavour to Eve his mundane life fully oriented to the spiritual reality. He should not shirk plunging into the hazards of war, though he must be attuned all the time to the Great Infinite.)
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
تیری بانگ تکبیر، تیری نماز اور تیری حرب و ضرب کے غوغا سے شرق و غرب کے معاملات سلجھے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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.
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