Bang e Dara by Allama Iqbal

Iqbal's Bang-e-Dara The Call of the Marching Bell, his first collection of Urdu poetry, was published in . It was written in three distinct phases of his life.The poems he wrote up to the year he left for England—reflect patriotism and the imagery of nature, including the Tarana-e-Hind and Tarana-e-Milli . The second set of poems date from , when Iqbal studied in Europe, and dwell upon the nature of European society, which he emphasised had lost spiritual and religious values. This inspired Iqbal to write poems on the historical and cultural heritage of Islam and the Muslim community, with a global perspective. Iqbal urges the entire Muslim community, addressed as the Ummah, to define personal, social and political existence by the values and teachings of Islam