حکمت خیرکثیر است
مکتب و ملا و اسرار کتابکور مادر زاد و نور آفتاب
English translation
Seminary and mullah, before the secrets of the Book, are as one blind from birth before the light of the sun.
Urdu translation
مکتب و ملّا اور قرآن پاک کے اسرار (کی مثال یوں ہے) جیسے مادر زاد اندھا اور آفتاب کی روشنی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 of 50 in “حکمت خیرکثیر است” (Wisdom Is A Great Good) in the section The Sphere of Mecury, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Javid Nama (جاوید نامہ), published in 1932.
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