مسجد قوت الاسلام
ہے مرے سینہ بے نور میں اب کیا باقی'لاالہ' مردہ و افسردہ و بے ذوق نمود
English translation
Now naught remains in Muslim's breast, his heart devoid of glint and glow: He avowed with zeal 'No God but He', but dead and cold the zeal for show.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
بے ذوق نمود: اظہار کے ذوق کا نہ ہونا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “مسجد قوت الاسلام” (The Mosque of the Power of Islam) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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