اشاعت اسلام فرنگستان میں
بلند تر نہیں انگریز کی نگاہوں میںقبول دین مسیحی سے برہمن کا مقام
English translation
If high caste Brahman ever chose to adopt Christ's faith and creed; his rank and state the same remain, to his conversion Franks wouldn’t heed.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
دين مسيحي: عیسائی مذہب۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “اشاعت اسلام فرنگستان میں” (Propagation of Islam in the West) 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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