حرفی چند با امت عربیہ

امتی بودی امم گردیدہ ئیبزم خود را خود ز ہم پاشیدہ ئی

English translation

You were a single nation, you have become now several nations, you have broken up your society yourself.
(Here Iqbal refers to the dirty game of the Colonial Powers, after he First Great War (1914.18), to divide the Arab land into small geographical territories and fostering narrow nationalism, which, as Iqbal states elsewhere, was the greatest danger to the unity and integrity of the Muslim world.)

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

تم ایک امّت تھے مگر اب مختلف قوموں میں منقسم ہو گئے، تم نے اپنی بزم کو خود ہی منتشر کر دیا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 22 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

۲۲ / ۳۹