سوال سوم

تن و جان را دو تا گفتن کلام استتن و جان را دو تا دیدن حرام است

English translation

To talk of body and soul as two separate entities is wrong; to see them as two is sinful.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

تن و جان کو الگ الگ کہا تو جا سکتا ہے، مگر انہیں الگ الگ سمجھنا حرام ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 17 of 38 in “⁨سوال سوم⁩” (Question 3) in the section New Garden of Mysteries, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

۱۷ / ۳۸