تمہید: در معنی ربط فرد و ملت
وحدت او مستقیم از کثرت استکثرت اندر وحدت او وحدت است
English translation
His singleness in multiplicity is firm and stable,
and itself supplies a unity to their innumerate swarm.
Urdu translation
فرد کی وحدت ملّت کی کثرت سے استقامت پاتی ہے اور افراد کی کثرت ملّت کے ذریعے وحدت بن جاتی ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 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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