آزادی
قرآن کو بازیچہ تاویل بنا کرچاہے تو خود اک تازہ شریعت کرے ایجاد
English translation
Can make the Holy Book the sport or boys, and can with ease devise new Faiths like toys.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
بازيچہ: کھیل، بے معنی بچوں کا کھیل۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “آزادی” (Freedom) 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 / ۴