الملک ﷲ

طارق چو بر کناررۂ اندلس سفینہ سوختگفتند کار تو بہ نگاہ خرد خطاست

When Tariq burned his boats on Andalusia’s coast, his men observed: ‘It was an unwise thing to do.

دوریم از سواد وطن باز چون رسیمترک سبب ز روی شریعت کجا رواست

We are so far from home; how shall we now return? Foregoing means is wrong in the Divine Law’s view.’

خندید و دست خویش بشمشیر برد و گفتہر ملک ملک ماست کہ ملک خدای ماست

He laughed and, putting his hand on his sword, declared: ‘All lands are God’s and they are all our homeland too.’