فرشتوں کاگیت
دانش و دین و علم و فن بندگی ہوس تمامعشق گرہ کشاے کا فیض نہیں ہے عام ابھی
English translation
Learning, religion, art and science, are all slaves of greed; thy love that solves all riddles, has yet to shower its blessings.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 13 in “فرشتوں کاگیت” (Song of the Angels) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۱۳