مخلوقات ہنر
آہ، وہ کافر بیچارہ کہ ہیں اس کے صنمعصر رفتہ کے وہی ٹوٹے ہوئے لات و منات!
English translation
Ah! The infidel poor still pays homage to his idols old; though their broken state lie knows, yet oil him they retain their hold.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “مخلوقات ہنر” (Creations Of Art) 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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