توحید
قوم کیا چیز ہے، قوموں کی امامت کیا ہےاس کو کیا سمجھیں یہ بیچارے دو رکعت کے امام
English translation
The Mullahs who lead prayers brief, don't know a nation's goal and aim. How can they learn a nation's weight, when things like this they do not claim?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 5 in “توحید” (Oneness Of God) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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