دین وسیاست
کلیسا کی بنیاد رہبانیت تھیسماتی کہاں اس فقیری میں میری
English translation
Monasticism was the church’s base; its austere living had no room for wealth.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
رہبانيت: تارک دنیا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 7 in “دین وسیاست” (Church And State) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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