داد چون آن قوم مرکز را ز دسترشتہ ی جمعیت ملت شکست

About this couplet

This is couplet 35 of 45 in “⁨در معنی اینکہ حیات ملیہ مرکز محسوس میخواہد و مرکز ملت اسلامیہ بیت الحرام است⁩” (That The Life Of The Community Requires A Visible Focus, And That The Focus Of The Islamic Community Is Makkah’s Sacred Home) in the section The Pillars of Islam, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (⁨رموزِ بیخودی⁩), published in 1918.