دوزخی کی مناجات
پوجا بھی ہے بے سود، نمازیں بھی ہیں بے سودقسمت ہے غریبوں کی وہی نالہ و فریاد
English translation
Their worship is vain, their prayers in vain; the poor are destined to weep in old pain.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 6 in “دوزخی کی مناجات” (The Hymns Of Hell Dweller) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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