در رہ دین تیز بین و سست گامپختۂ من خام و کارم ناتمام

English translation

For all my keen insight into the ways of faith, I am slow-footed;* all my work is incomplete and what to me appears mature is unripe,
* Iqbal’s statement: ‘I have given the best part of my life to a careful study of Islam, its laws and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. This constant contact with the spirit of Islam, as it unfolds itself in time, has, I think, given me a kind of insight into its significance as a world-fact.’

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

دین کے معاملے میں میری نگاہ دور رس ہے؛ میرے قدم سست، میری پختگی خام ہے اور میرا کام نا مکمل ۔