Aye shaheed-e-mulk-o-millat main tere oopar nisaar

اے شہید ملک و ملت میں ترے اوپر نثار
لے تری ہمت کا چرچا غیر کی محفل میں ہے
بسمل عظیم آبادی –

Aye shaheed-e-mulk-o-millat main tire oopar nisaar
Le tiri himmat ka charcha ghair ki mehfil mein hai
– Bismil Azimabadi

ऐ शहीद-ऐ-मुल्क-ओ-मिल्लत मैं तिरे ऊपर निसार
ले तिरी हिम्मत का चर्चा ग़ैर की महफ़िल में है
– बिस्मिल अज़ीमाबादी

Meaning of:

Shaheed-e-mulk-o-millat , शहीद-ऐ-मुल्क-ओ-मिल्लत, شہید ملک و ملت: शहीदों के देश, Nation of martyrs
Nisaar, निसार, نثار: कुर्बान, Sacrifice

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This sher is from the ghazal Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai. Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna is a patriotic poem written in Urdu by Bismil Azimabadi of Patna in 1921, and then immortalized by the great revolutionary of Indian freedom Pt. Ramprasad Bismil as a freedom war cry during the British Raj period in India. It was first published in journal “Saba”, published from Delhi.
The poem was written as an ode to young freedom fighters of the Indian independence movement. It has also been associated with the younger generation of inter-war freedom fighters such as Ashfaqullah Khan, Shaheed Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad

Source: Wikipedia

The ghazal was used in the movie Rang de Basanti.

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