اس دَور میں اقوام کی صُحبت بھی ہُوئی عام
پوشیدہ نگاہوں سے رہی وحدتِ آدم
Is daur mein aqwam ki suhbat bhi hui aam
Poshida nigahon se rahi wahdat-e-Adam
تفریقِ مِلل حکمتِ افرنگ کا مقصود
اسلام کا مقصود فقط ملّتِ آدم
Tafriq-e-milal hikmat-e-afrang ka maqsud
Islam ka maqsud faqat millat-e-Adam
مکّے نے دیا خاکِ جنیوا کو یہ پیغام
جمعیّتِ اقوام کہ جمعیّت آدم!
Makke ne diya khak-e-Geneva ko yeh paigham
Jamiyyat-e-aqwam ke jamiyyat-e-Adam!
Source: Zarb-e-Kalim (1936) — section Islam aur Musalman, nazm
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Written in the years of the League of Nations at Geneva. Nations meet more than ever, the poet says, yet the unity of mankind stays hidden from view. He sets dividing people into nations against the aim of one human family, and ends with Makka's message to Geneva: a league of nations, or a league of mankind?
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