کفر واسلام
ذوق حاضر ہے تو پھر لازم ہے ایمان خلیلورنہ خاکستر ہے تیری زندگی کا پیرہن
English translation
If you have taste for the visible you need the Faith of Khalil; otherwise ashes are the adornments of your life.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 7 in “کفر واسلام” (Infidelity And Islam) 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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