ہندوستاني بچوں کا قومي گيت
English title: THE NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR THE INDIAN CHILDREN
The land in which Chishti delivered the message of God; the garden in which Nanak sang the song of Tawhid of God;
The land which the Tatars adopted as their homeland | For which people of Hijaz abandoned the Arabian wilderness
That same is my homeland, that same is my homeland | Whose wisdom had left the Greeks bewildered
Which gave knowledge and skill to the entire world | Whose soil had been endowed by God with the elixir's effect
Which had filled the pocket of the Turks with diamonds | That same is my homeland, that same is my homeland
Which illuminated and established in the milky way again | The stars which had fallen from the sky of Persia
the House from which the world had heard Tawhid's tune; from where the Holy Prophet had felt cool breeze; that same is my homeland, that same is my homeland.
Whose denizens are Kalims*, whose mountains the Sinais* are;
Where the Prophet Nuh's boat and its occupants had landed | The land whose elegance is the stairway to the sky
Living in whose environment is like living in Paradise | That same is my homeland, that same is my homeland
Sources and translator credits
- Original text transcription: Bang-e-Dara — ہندوستاني بچوں کا قومي گيت — Digital transcription file at commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the source dataset does not identify the underlying print edition.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Iqbal Demystified source list: Bang-e-Dara — Pinned digital dataset commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; the underlying print edition is not identified by the dataset.Community dataset list; not reconciled against a print edition.Source
- Pinned digital source list 001 (Bang-e-Dara section headings) — Pinned repository commit 39d44fc0c2b8ca25769c4b36e6eac4d90cb42b35; digital transcription, not a selected print edition.Verified against this pinned digital transcription file; not checked against a print edition.Source
- Bang-e-Dara English translation at allama-iqbal.com — National Song of Indian Children — Public digital poem page, retrieved 2026-10-05; pinned to allama-iqbal.com commit 82547635bb6b758c45082084b2f152fc453a8056.Translation by Dr M.A.K. Khalil; English Translation by: Dr M.A.K. KhalilSource
- English translations in the Bang-e-Dara digital anthology excerpt — Recovered Urdu poetry anthology PDF excerpt; publication title and year are not established by the preserved source packet (bang-english.pdf, 105 PDF pages).Translation by M.A.K. Khalil; Passages are individually credited in the recovered PDF as “Translated by M.A.K. Khalil”; exact source and credit PDF page locators are stored with each imported passage.Source
