تصویر درد
زباں سے گر کیا توحید کا دعوی تو کیا حاصلبنایا ہے بت پندار کو اپنا خدا تو نے
English translation
To what purpose is your claim to monotheism! You have made the idol of self conceit your deity.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
بت پندار: تصوّر کا بت یعنی تصوّر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 43 of 69 in “تصویر درد” (Picture of Pain) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۴۳ / ۶۹