دام تہذیب
یہ پیر کلیسا کی کرامت ہے کہ اس نےبجلی کے چراغوں سے منور کیے افکار
English translation
Oh this wonder great has The Guide of Church wrought. By means of electric lamps has lit their thought.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “دام تہذیب” (Culture's Snare) 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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