تمہید: در معنی ربط فرد و ملت

قوم با ضبط آشنا گرداندشنرم رو مثل صبا گرداندش

English translation

The People only make him intimate with discipline;
teach him to be as soft and tractable as is the gentle breeze;

Urdu translation

قوم اسے ضبط سے متعارف کرتی ہے اور اسے صبا کی مانند ہولے ہولے چلتی ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 18 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.

Read it in the poem

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