2a · Reading Urdu · verse 6 · Muhammad Iqbal · 1877–1938 · 17 words, 16 with a dictionary page

Chishti and Nanak

The land in which Chishti proclaimed the message of Truth; the garden in which Nanak sang the song of Oneness.

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What is the archive's and what is not. The Urdu text is quoted verbatim from Bāng-i Darā (1924), p. 87. Each word's meaning is cited to the dictionary page it was read at. The Roman transliteration is the archive's own and has not yet had a native reader's pass — tap any word to see exactly what is cited and what is not.

Source

  1. Bāng-i Darā, Ghulām Muḥyī-ud-dīn Book Seller, Hyderabad (Deccan), 1924, Ḥiṣṣa-i awwal (tā 1905), Hindūstānī bachchoñ kā qaumī gīt, poem 42, p. 87 (scan leaf 109) — https://archive.org/details/bangidara00iqbauoft · fetched · public domain (Iqbal d. 1938); facsimile allowed
  2. Word senses: John T. Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English (London, 1884), via the Digital South Asia Library — page numbers on each word card.