لادین سیاست
مری نگاہ میں ہے یہ سیاست لا دیںکنیز اہرمن و دوں نہاد و مردہ ضمیر
English translation
In my view statesmanship cut off from creed, is Satan's slave, has no qualms, but low breed.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
دوں نہاد: کم اصل۔کنیز اہرمن: شیطان کی لونڈی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “لادین سیاست” (Secular Politics) in the section Politics of the East and the West, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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