دین وسیاست
ہوئی دین و دولت میں جس دم جدائیہوس کی امیری، ہوس کی وزیری
English translation
When church and state parted the ways for ever, it set in the rule of avarice and greed.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۷