رہ و رسم حرم نا محرمانہ
رہ و رسم حرم نا محرمانہکلیسا کی ادا سوداگرانہتبرک ہے مرا پیراہن چاکنہیں اہل جنوں کا یہ زمانہ
English translation
The rituals of the Sanctuary unsanctified! The Church commercialized.
My torn apparel aught to be valued much, for madness has become rare these days!
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “رہ و رسم حرم نا محرمانہ” (Rav o rasam-e-haram na mehromana) in the section Quatrains, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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