لم یلد ولم یولد
عشق او سرمایۂ جمعیت استہمچو خون اندر عروق ملت است
English translation
As the blood that flows within a people’s veins, so is his love; sole substance of our solidarity.
Urdu translation
آپ (صلعم) کا عشق ملت کی جمیعت کا سرمایہ ہے؛ وہ ملت کی رگوں میں خون کی مانند دوڑ رہا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 of 25 in “لم یلد ولم یولد” (‘He Begat Not, Neither Was He Begotton’) 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 poem۲۰ / ۲۵