فردوس میں ایک مکالمہ
آیا ہے مگر اس سے عقیدوں میں تزلزلدنیا تو ملی، طائر دیں کر گیا پرواز
English translation
But this has produced wavering in fundamental beliefs; secular benefits were obtained, but din had been undermined.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 13 in “فردوس میں ایک مکالمہ” (A Dialogue in Paradise) 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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