در اسرار شریعت

او نداند از حلال و از حرامحکمتش خام است و کارش ناتمام

English translation

She does not know lawful from unlawful, her wisdom is immature and all her activities defective.
(Iqbal quotes in Bal-i Jibril Rumi’s verse: True knowledge is born of lawful food, love and compassion are born of lawful food.)

Translated by Jamil Naqvi

Urdu translation

وہ حلال و حرام میں امتیاز نہیں کرتا ، اس کا فلسفہ خام ہے اور اس کا کام نامکمل۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 13 of 49 in “⁨در اسرار شریعت⁩” (The Essence Of The Shari’Ah), 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 poem

۱۳ / ۴۹