عقل و دل

علم تجھ سے تو معرفت مجھ سےتو خدا جو، خدا نما ہوں میں

English translation

Learning is from you, but Divine Knowledge is from me; you only seek Divinity, but showing Divinity I am.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

معرفت: خدا کی پہچان۔خدا جو: خدا کو تلاش کرنے والا۔خدا نما: خدا دیکھنے والا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 of 13 in “⁨عقل و دل⁩” (The Intellect And The Heart) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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