لادین سیاست
ہوئی ہے ترک کلیسا سے حاکمی آزادفرنگیوں کی سیاست ہے دیو بے زنجیر
English translation
By quitting Church, Europe has freedom gained, this statesmanship is, like a giant unchained.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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