فرما رہے تھے شیخ طریق عمل پہ وعظ
کہنے لگا ستم ہے کہ ایسے قیود کیپابند ہو تجارت سامان خورد و نوش
English translation
He said, ‘It is atrocious that in such restrictions are imprisoned the dealings in articles of eating and drink’.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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.
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