پیرو مرید
تا کجا آویزش دین و وطنجوہر جاں پر مقدم ہے بدن!
English translation
How long this clash between church and state? Is the body superior to the soul?
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
تا کجا آويزش: کب تک جنگ (جاری رہی گی)۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 17 of 52 in “پیرو مرید” (The Mentor And The Disciple) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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