حرفی چند با امت عربیہ

گرچہ شیرین است و نوشین است اوکج خرام و شوخ و بی دین است او

English translation

Although she is sweet and pleasant, yet she is crooked, saucy and irreligious.
(Iqbal thinks that sciences and arts in the hands of secular West became destructive weapons for the annihilation of this earthly planet. There is nothing inherently evil in them, only they are cut off from their natural affinity to the spiritual values of life.)

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

اگرچہ اب وہ شیریں و خوشنما ہو گئی ہے مگر اس میں کج خرامی ، شوخی اور بے دینی بھی آ گئی ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 38 of 39 in “⁨حرفی چند با امت عربیہ⁩” (A Few Words to the Arab Nation), 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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