خطاب بہ مخدرات اسلام
دور حاضر تر فروش و پر فن استکاروانش نقد دین را رہزن است
English translation
Coxcomb and crafty is the present age, its caravan a highwayman, well armed to seize and spoil Faith’s riches;
Urdu translation
دور حاضر عیّار و مکّار ہے اس کا کاروان متاع دین کو لوٹنے والا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 16 in “خطاب بہ مخدرات اسلام” (Address To The Veiled Ladies Of Islam) in the section The Pillars of Islam, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (رموزِ بیخودی), published in 1918.
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