Better than the whole world is this India of ours. We are its nightingales; it is the garden of ours.

If we are in foreign lands our hearts think of the homeland; consider us present where this heart of ours is present.

The highest mountain, touching the sky; it is our sentinel, it is our watchman.* * Allusion to the Himalayan Range.)

Thousands of rivers are playing in its lap are playing which make this garden of ours to be the world’s envy.

O, The River Ganga’s waters! Do you remember the day when our caravan landed at your banks.* * Allusion to the arrival of Muslims in India: Unlike the British the Muslims settled in the Indian sub continent and made it their homeland, which establishes their claim to settle the political problems of India with due regard to their interests.)

Religion does not teach hostility with each other, we are Indians, India is our homeland.

Greece, Egypt, Rome are all extinct from the world, but our renown and fame have continued so far.

There is some secret that our existence is not effaced; for centuries time's vicissitudes have been our foe.

Iqbal! In the world there is no confidante of ours: How would anyone know the hidden pathos of ours.* * Allusion to the callousness of the world community to the calamity of the people of the Indian sub continent resulting from their political subjugation by the British.)