حکمت فرعونی
حکمت ارباب دین کردم عیانحکمت ارباب کین را ہم بدان
English translation
I have unfolded the wisdom of the people of faith; now learn the wisdom of the people of malice.
(People of malice, as distinguished from the people of faith, who pass their days totally divorced from the spiritual reality of life and are therefore involved only in material welfare, regard moral values absolutely irrelevant. The result is total moral anarchy in social life. Iqbal employs this contrast in several contexts.)
Translated by Jamil Naqvi
Urdu translation
میں نے اہل ایمان کی حکمت ظاہر کی ہے اب کینہ دوز (فرعونوں) کی حکمت بھی سمجھ لے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 23 in “حکمت فرعونی” (The Wisdom Of The Pharaohs), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق), published in 1936.
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