حکمت فرنگ
کشد گرد اندیشہ پرگار مرگہمہ حکمت او پرستار مرگ
English translation
It has encompassed even thought with death. Death is all its philosophies’ life-breath; it is what all its sciences devise.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Urdu translation
فرنگی موت کی پرکار کو اپنی سوچ کے گرد گھوماتا ہے، اس کا سارا فلسفہ موت کا پرستار ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 11 in “حکمت فرنگ” (The Wisdom Of The West) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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