فرشتوں کاگیت
حق را بسجودے، صنماں را بطوافےبہتر ہے چراغ حرم و دیر بجھا دو
English translation
God by mm's prostrations, by man's vows are idols cheated: Quench at once in My shrine and their fane the sacred light!
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
حق را بسجودے، صنماں را بطوافے: خدا کو سجدے اور بتوں کا طواف۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 13 in “فرشتوں کاگیت” (Song of the Angels) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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