رکن اول: توحید
اصل ملت در وطن دیدن کہ چہباد و آب و گل پرستیدن کہ چہ
English translation
Thinkest thou the community is based upon the Country? Shall so much regard be blindly paid to water, air and earth?
Urdu translation
ملّت کی اصل وطن میں دیکھنے کا کیا مطلب ؛ مٹی اور آب و ہوا پوجنے کے کیا معنی؟
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 of 34 in “رکن اول: توحید” (The Pillars Of Islam First Pillar: The Unity of God) in the section The Pillars of Islam, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (رموزِ بیخودی), published in 1918.
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