حکمت فرعونی
حکمتی از بند دین آزادہ ئیاز مقام شوق دور افتادہ ئی
English translation
This is wisdom that has freed itself from faith’s bonds and has strayed far away from the station of Love.
(Station of love (maqam-i shauq) is loyalty to the spiritual values of life.)
Translated by Jamil Naqvi
Urdu translation
ان کی پالیسی دین سے آزاد اور مقام شوق و محبت سے دور ہوتی ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۲۳