لا دینی و لاطینی، کس پیچ میں الجھا تو

اے شیخ، امیروں کو مسجد سے نکلوا دےہے ان کی نمازوں سے محراب ترش ابرو

English translation

O Shaikh, get all the rich expelled from precincts of the Holy mosque
For niche of mosque is angry with them all for their much impious task.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

ترش ابرو: ناراض، خفا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 5 in “⁨لا دینی و لاطینی، کس پیچ میں الجھا تو⁩” (La deeni wa latini, kis pech mein uljha tu) in the section Meditations of Mihrab Gul Afghan, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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