سنیما
وہ مذہب تھا اقوام عہد کہن کایہ تہذیب حاضر کی سوداگری ہے
English translation
That-antiquity’s poor religion: This-modernity's pigeon-plucking.
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “سنیما” (Cinema) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۴