قوت اور دین
اس سیل سبک سیر و زمیں گیر کے آگےعقل و نظر و علم و ہنر ہیں خس و خاشاک
English translation
Before this quickly flowing flood that spreads to all the tracts with speed art, insight, intellect and science; are carried along like straw and reed.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “قوت اور دین” (Authority And Faith) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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