آدمی اندر جھان خیر و شرکم شناسد نفع خود را از ضرر

English translation

In this world of good and evil, man seldom knows what is profitable to him and what is harmful;
(Iqbal thinks that human reason is not capable of arriving at the universal moral truth for which man has to fall back upon revelation. Conclusions in the field of morality arrived at by human intellect are more often marred by the natural prejudices to which man is subject.)

Translated by Jamil Naqvi

Urdu translation

اس جہان خیر و شر میں آدمی اپنے نفع و نقصان میں تمیز نہیں کرتا۔