مذہب
دامن دیں ہاتھ سے چھوٹا تو جمعیت کہاںاور جمعیت ہوئی رخصت تو ملت بھی گئی
English translation
If the din’s skirt is lost, disappears the organization; and if organization departs also disappears the nation!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 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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