ہندی اسلام

ہے زندہ فقط وحدت افکار سے ملتوحدت ہو فنا جس سے وہ الہام بھی الحاد

English translation

Oneness of thought and Faith alone can make a Society last for long: That revelation is schism indeed that fails to make this bond much strong.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

وحدت افکار: خیالات کی یگانگت ۔الحاد: کفر، بے دینی۔الہام: خدا کا پیغام۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 5 in “⁨ہندی اسلام⁩” (Indian Islam) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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