جواب شکوہ
ہر کوئی مست مے ذوق تن آسانی ہےتم مسلماں ہو! یہ انداز مسلمانی ہے!حیدری فقر ہے نے دولت عثمانی ہےتم کو اسلاف سے کیا نسبت روحانی ہے؟وہ زمانے میں معزز تھے مسلماں ہو کراور تم خوار ہوئے تارک قرآں ہو کر
English translation
Everyone is intoxicated with the wine of indulgence: Are you Muslims? To you is this the way of Islam?
You have neither the faqr of Haidar (R.A.) nor the wealth of Uthman (R.A.)! What spiritual relation between you and your ancestors exists?
They were respected in the world by being Muslims; and you became disgraced by abandoning the Qura’an
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 of 36 in “جواب شکوہ” (The Response To The Complaint) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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