CINEMA-or new fetish-fashioning,
Idol-making and mongering still?
Art, men called that olden voodoo—
Art, they call this mumbo-jumbo;
That-antiquity's poor religion:
This-modernity's pigeon-plucking;
That-earth's soil: this-soil of Hades;
Dust, their temple; ashes, ours.
| Note : Mr. Naeem Siddiqui did not translate this poem. So, the translation of this poem has been taken from "Poems from Iqbal" by V. G. Kiernan. ISBN: 0 19 579185 1 |