خطاب بہ جاوید سخنی بہ نژاد نو

آن بہ انکار وجود آمد "عجول،این "عجول" و ھم "ظلوم" و ہم "جہول"

English translation

One who denies God commits a sin of ajol (acting in haste without pondering); denying oneself commits triple sin of haste, cruelty and ignorance.

Urdu translation

Aan beh inkaar-e-wujood aamad ‘a’ajool’; ein ‘a’ajool’-o-hum ‘zaloom’-o-hum ‘jahool’.

About this couplet

This is couplet 62 of 136 in “⁨خطاب بہ جاوید سخنی بہ نژاد نو⁩” (Address To Javed) in the section Beyond the Spheres, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Javid Nama (⁨جاوید نامہ⁩), published in 1932.

Read it in the poem

۶۲ / ۱۳۶