خطاب بہ مخدرات اسلام
کور و یزدان ناشناس ادراک اوناکسان زنجیری پیچاک او
English translation
Blind its brain, that knoweth naught of God; ignoble they who are the captives of its twisted chains;
Urdu translation
اس کی عقل اندھی اور خدا نا شناس ہے؛ ناکس اس کے پھندے میں پھنس جاتے ہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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.
Read it in the poem۸ / ۱۶