Naqsh Tauheed Ka Har Dil Pe Bithaya Hum Ne

Zer-e-Khanjar Bhi Yeh Paigham Sunaya Hum Ne

Tu Hi Keh De Ke Ukhada Dar-e-Khyber Kis Ne

Sheher Qaiser Ka Jo Tha, Us Ko Kiya Sar Kis Ne

Tode Makhluq Khudawandon Ke Paikar Kis Ne

Kaat Kar Rakh Diye Kuffaar Ke Lashkar Kis Ne

Kis Ne Thanda Kiya Atishkuda-e-Iran Ko?

Kis Ne Phir Zinda Kiya Tazkara-e-Yazdaan Ko?

Kon Si Qoum Faqat Teri Talabgar Huwi

Aur Tere Liye Zehmat Kash-e-Paikaar Huwi

Kis Ki Shamsheer Jahangeer, Jahandar Huwi

Kis Ki Takbeer Se Dunya Teri Baidar Huwi

The selfsame message preached our lips when swords danced high in battle’s stress.

Declare You whose fierce valour once did Khyber’s barriers overthrow?

Or whose resistless might once laid Famed Caesar’s proudest cities low?

Who smashed to dust man’s hand-wrought gods, those things of straw and earth and clay?

And who did unbelieving hosts to spread Your name and glory slay?

And who was it that quenched and cooled the fiery urns of fair Iran?

And in that land did once again revive the worship of Yazdan?

Among those nations, was there one who craved You as we craved and sought?

Or risked the perils of fell war that Your Divinest will be wrought?

Whose was that conquest‐thirsty sword which won and held the world in fee?

And whose the Takbeer‐sounding call, which wakened all the world to You?