تمہید: در معنی ربط فرد و ملت
در زبان قوم گویا مے شودبر رہ اسلاف پویا می شود
English translation
His thoughts are vocal on the People’s tongue,
and on the pathway that his forbears laid he learns to run.
Urdu translation
فرد قوم ہی کی زبان سے بات کرتا ہے اور اسی کے ذریعے اسلاف کی راہ پر گامزن رہتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 34 in “تمہید: در معنی ربط فرد و ملت” (Prelude: Of The Bond Between Individual And Community) in the section Dedication to the Muslim Community, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (رموزِ بیخودی), published in 1918.
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