مسجد قوت الاسلام
ہے تری شان کے شایاں اسی مومن کی نمازجس کی تکبیر میں ہو معرکہ بود و نبود
English translation
The worship of such Muslims suits your structure immense and so vast, who with one breath that God is Great; found truth and lies away are cast.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
بود و نبود: ہستی و نیستی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “مسجد قوت الاسلام” (The Mosque of the Power of Islam) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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