شعاع امید
بت خانے کے دروازے پہ سوتا ہے برہمنتقدیر کو روتا ہے مسلماں تہ محراب
English translation
The Brahman guards the fane and sleeps at gate, the Muslim in mosque's niche, bewails his Fate.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 17 in “شعاع امید” (Ray Of Hope) 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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