اجتہاد
خود بدلتے نہیں، قرآں کو بدل دیتے ہیںہوئے کس درجہ فقیہان حرم بے توفیق!
English translation
The jurists are helpless to such extent can't change themselves, but would change Koran's content. How sad, the jurists can't shift their outlook, but would prefer to change the Holy Book.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
فقيہان حرم: مسلمان علماء۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “اجتہاد” (Ijtehad) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۴