فرما رہے تھے شیخ طریق عمل پہ وعظ
اک بادہ کش بھی وعظ کی محفل میں تھا شریکجس کے لیے نصیحت واعظ تھی بار گوش
English translation
A drunkard was also present in the sermon’s assembly; to whom such talks as those of the preacher were irksome.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “فرما رہے تھے شیخ طریق عمل پہ وعظ” (Farma rahe thay Sheikh tareeq-e-amal pe wa’az) in the section Humorous Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۶