در اسرار شریعت

تا تہ و بالا نگردد این نظامدانش و تہذیب و دین، سودای خام

English translation

Unless this system is destroyed completely, knowledge, religion and culture are mere empty names.
(Iqbal thinks that Western culture which is through and through secular in complexion cannot be expected to face the challenge of the new age. No change, superficial or far-reaching, can stave off its doom. What is needed is: total destruction of this culture. It is the same remedy that was suggested by Waliullah: total and complete revolution.)

Translated by Jamil Naqvi

Urdu translation

جب تک یہ سودی نظام تہ و بالا نہ ہو دانش، تہذیب اور دین کی باتیں بے سود ہیں۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 18 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

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