مذہب غلامان

مذہب او تنگ چون آفاق اواز عشا تاریک تر اشراق او

English translation

His religion, like his vision, is narrow (blurred); his forenoon is darker than his night (expressed by referring to prayer timings).

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

اس کا مذہب اس کے ذہنی افق کی مانند تنگ ہے، اس کی اشراق (سورج نکلنے کے بعد کا وقت) اس کی عشا ( رات) سے بھی زیادہ تاریک ہوتی ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 24 of 39 in “⁨مذہب غلامان⁩” (Religion Of Slaves) in the section On The Fine Arts Of Slaves, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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