فرما رہے تھے شیخ طریق عمل پہ وعظ
میں نے کہا کہ آپ کو مشکل نہیں کوئیہندوستاں میں ہیں کلمہ گو بھی مے فروش
English translation
I said, ‘There is no difficulty for you as in India Muslims also are liquor sellers!’ (This is a sarcasm on the fact that a fairly large number of the Muslims in India were dealing in wine and other intoxicants.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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