خضرراہ
پھر سیاست چھوڑ کر داخل حصار دیں میں ہوملک و دولت ہے فقط حفظ حرم کا اک ثمر
English translation
Relinquishing ‘politics’ enter the fort of din again; country and wealth is only a reward for Haram’s defense.
(This verse does not teach Muslims to withdraw from politics. It preaches only refraining from God-less Western politics, on the vices of which he is very emphatic.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
حصار ديں: مذہب کا قلعہ
About this couplet
This is couplet 73 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۷۳ / ۸۵