خطاب بہ مخدرات اسلام
از سر سود و زیان سودا مزنگام جز بر جادۂ آبا مزن
English translation
Fret not thyself to calculate the profit and the loss,
being content to tread the well-worn path our fathers went before.
Urdu translation
تو معاملات کو دینوی نفع و نقصان کے لحاظ سے نہ جانچ ؛ صرف اپنے آباء کے راستے پر گامزن رہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 of 16 in “خطاب بہ مخدرات اسلام” (Address To The Veiled Ladies Of Islam) in the section The Pillars of Islam, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (رموزِ بیخودی), published in 1918.
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