غزل
مصلحتاً کہہ دیا میں نے مسلماں تجھےتیرے نفس میں نہیں، گرمی یوم النشور
English translation
I have conferred a Muslim's name on you for sake of courtesy, custom and routine though your breath is quite bereft of heat of Reckoning Day that shall emit blazing sheen.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
یوم النشور: قیامت کا دن۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 6 in “غزل” (Ghazal) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۶