سیاسیات حاضرہ

در حرم زاد و کلیسا را مریدپردۂ ناموس ما را بر درید

English translation

He was born a Muslim but is a disciple of the church; he rent asunder the veil of our honour.
(‘Disciples of the church’ refers to Muslim leaders who sided with the British rulers (Christians) and thus jeopardized the interests of the Muslim community. The best example was provided by some members of the Muslim Delegation at the Second Round Table Conference in London in 1931.) This ‘tradition’ of the disciples of the church is followed more devotedly by the contemporary Muslim rulers.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

یہ شخص حرم میں پیدا ہوا تھا کللیسا کا مرید ہو گیا۔ اس نے ہماری غیرت ملّی کا پردہ چاک چاک کر دیا ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 16 of 41 in “⁨سیاسیات حاضرہ⁩” (Contemporary Politics), 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 poem

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