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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