دین وسیاست
خصومت تھی سلطانی و راہبی میںکہ وہ سربلندی ہے یہ سربزیری
English translation
The anchorite and the king have ever been hostile; one has humility; the other an exalted power.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
خصومت: دشمنی۔سربزيري: سر نیچے رکھنا، سرنگونی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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