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Asalam u alaikum brothers and sisters,

I always think what are meaning of Pakistan. I asked many people at different time and places everyone told me different meanings as they know, or they understand, but my knowledge hunger still not complete.

One day I went to Khaliq Dina Hall library in Karachi and I found one of best old poetry by Poet Habib Jalib. He wrote it when East & West Pakistan were one, so you will also find word bangal there in poetry. We lost eastern part in 1970-71 and we don't want any more loss at any cost.

I would like to share that poetry with all my brothers and sisters. You maybe had read the poetry somewhere els also. Let’s read it once more time. And see how clear meanings Habib Jalib had explained here.




Translated


Bread, clothes and medicine
A little house to live in
Free education, as may right be seen
A Muslim, I, too, have always been
What does Pakistan mean
There is no God, but God, the Rab-al-alameen

For American alms do not bray
Do not, the people, laugh away
With the democratic struggle do not play
Hold on to freedom, do not cave in
What does Pakistan mean
There is no God, but God, the Rab-al-alameen

Confiscate the fields from the landowners
Take away the mills from the robbers
Redeem the country from its dark hours
Off with the lordly vermin
What does Pakistan mean
There is no God, but God, the Rab-al-alameen

Sind, Baluchistan and Frontier
These three are to Punjab most dear
And Bengal lends them splendour
Anguished should not be their mien
What does Pakistan mean
There is no God, but God, the Rab-al-alameen

This, then, is the basic thing
For the people, let freedom’s bell ring
From the rope, let the plunderer swing
Truly they speak, who the truth have seen
What does Pakistan mean
There is no God, but God, the Rab-al-alameen