غلاموں کی نماز
کہا مجاہد ترکی نے مجھ سے بعد نمازطویل سجدہ ہیں کیوں اس قدر تمھارے امام
English translation
The Turkish Knight said to me at prayer's end: ‘Why do your Imams prostrate for long and bend’.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “غلاموں کی نماز” (The Prayer Of Slaves) 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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