لا الہ الا اﷲ
ہمچنان بینی کہ در دور فرنگبندگی با خواجگی آمد بہ جنگ
English translation
You will similarly see that in the period of Western dominance capital and labour have come to blows.
(Daur-i-Farang: Period of European domination, both political and intellectual. Iqbal seems to imply that the class struggle, strife between capital and labour, is the result of this age which is secular in nature, divorced from religious background.)
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اس طرح تو نے دیکھا کہ فرنگیوں کے دور میں بھی غلامی نے آقائی سے جنگ کی ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 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 poem۲۳ / ۳۴