فقر و راہبی
کچھ اور چیز ہے شاید تری مسلمانیتری نگاہ میں ہے ایک، فقر و رہبانی
English translation
Perhaps your Faith is so much quaint and queer, for Faqr and monkery same to you appear.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “فقر و راہبی” (Faqr And Monkery) 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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