اشکے چند بر افتراق ہندیان

ہر کہ اینجا دانہ کشت اینجا درودپیش حق آن بندہ را بردن چہ سود

English translation

What use is there to produce before God one; who has both sown the seed and reaped the fruit in this world?
(The idea that those who work for gain in this life only will be given their reward here, is based on the following verse of the Qur’an, xvii. 18: ‘Whoso desires this transitory life, We hasten to him therein what we please…’ After death, he will be deprived of the opportunity to experience Beatific Vision.)

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

جس نے یہاں دانہ بو کر یہیں فصل برداشت کر لی، ایسے بندے کو اللہ تعالے کے سامنے لے جانے کی کیا ضرورت۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 of 26 in “⁨اشکے چند بر افتراق ہندیان⁩” (Lament On The Differences Among Indians), 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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