اﷲالصمد

از نسیمش خاک تو خاموش گشتوز گل و ریحان تہی آغوش گشت

English translation

Fanned by foreign blasts thy soil is fallen silent, and no more fertile in fragrant roses and sweet herbs.

Urdu translation

غیروں کی نسیم نے تیری خاک کو بنجر بنا دیا اور گل و ریحان سے خالی کر دیا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 32 of 50 in “⁨اﷲالصمد⁩” (‘God, The Self-Subsistent’) in the section Summary of the Purport of the Poem, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (⁨رموزِ بیخودی⁩), published in 1918.

Read it in the poem

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