لا الہ الا اﷲ
بندہ را با خواجہ خواہی در ستیزتخم "لا" در مشت خاک او بریز
English translation
Dost thou wish the servant to fight the master (for his rights)? Then sow the seed of No in his handful of dust.
(Iqbal coined the word khwajgi to express the idea behind ‘capitalism’. It was first used in Rumuz-i-Bekhudi. Capitalism has cast many a charming idol: race, nationalism, church, state, civilization, and colour.)
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
تو غلام کو آقا کے خلاف لڑانا چاہتا ہے تو اس کی مشت خاک میں لا کا بیج بو دے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 34 in “لا الہ الا اﷲ” (There is no god but Allah), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۱۰ / ۳۴