مذہب
پیکر اگر نظر سے نہ ہو آشنا تو کیاہے شیخ بھی مثال برہمن صنم تراش
English translation
If the form is unfamiliar to sight; would the Shaikh also be an idol-maker like Brahman?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
صنم تراش: بت تراش
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 6 in “مذہب” (Religion) 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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