در معنی اینکہ وطن اساس ملت نیست

مملکت را دین او معبود ساختفکر او مذموم را محمود ساخت

English translation

His novel faith proclaimed the State the only worship;
his thoughts the ignoble turned to praise-worthy.

Urdu translation

اس کے مذہب نے مملکت کو معبود قرار دے کر مذموم کو محمود بنا دیا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 16 of 20 in “⁨در معنی اینکہ وطن اساس ملت نیست⁩” (That The Country Is Not The Foundation Of The Community) in the section The Pillars of Islam, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (⁨رموزِ بیخودی⁩), published in 1918.

Read it in the poem

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