بدل کے بھیس پھر آتے ہیں ہر زمانے میں
اگرچہ پیر ہے آدم جواں ہیں لات و منات
badal ke bhes phir aate hain har zamane mein
agarche pir hai Adam, javan hain Lat-o-Manat
یہ ایک سجدہ جسے تو گراں سمجھتا ہے
ہزار سجدے سے دیتا ہے آدمی کو نجات
ye ek sajda jise tu giran samajhta hai
hazar sajde se deta hai aadmi ko najat
Source: Zarb-e-Kalim (1936), section "Islam aur Musalman"; Kulliyat-e-Iqbal (Urdu), p. 499, page 499
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Two couplets on prayer. The old idols keep coming back in new disguises in every age, Iqbal says, and the one prostration a person finds so heavy is what frees them from bowing a thousand times to everything else.
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