عصر حاضر
مردہ، 'لا دینی افکار سے افرنگ میں عشقعقل بے ربطی افکار سے مشرق میں غلام!
English translation
The love of God is dead by unbelief 'mong Franks through lack of link in thoughts, East shackles wears on shanks.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “عصر حاضر” (Modern Age) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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