سیاسیات حاضرہ
در بدن داری اگر سوز حیاتہست معراج مسلمان در صلوت
English translation
If you have life’s ardour in your body, you will know that the ascension of a Muslim is in his prayer.
(‘Life’s ardour’: It is the same thing which in some places Iqbal calls ‘light of God’ and in other places as ‘light of soul’. All these terms stand for spiritual orientation. Ascension (Mi’raj): It is the direct experience of God which the Prophet had. The verse is a rendering of the famous tradition ‘Prayer (Namaz) is a Muslim’s ascension’.)
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اگر تو اپنے اندر سوز حیات رکھتا ہے تو تو محسوس کرے گا کہ نماز میں مسلمان کی معراج ہے ( اسے نماز میں معراج کی سی کیقیت حاصل ہوتی ہے)۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 39 of 41 in “سیاسیات حاضرہ” (Contemporary Politics), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق), published in 1936.
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