ہندی اسلام
ملا کو جو ہے ہند میں سجدے کی اجازتناداں یہ سمجھتا ہے کہ اسلام ہے آزاد
English translation
The leave allowed to Muslim Priest to bow and bend, 'fore God to pray makes that artless fellow think that Ind is free from foreign sway.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 5 in “ہندی اسلام” (Indian Islam) 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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