تصوف
خرد نے کہہ بھی دیا 'لاالہ' تو کیا حاصلدل و نگاہ مسلماں نہیں تو کچھ بھی نہیں
English translation
If wit incites a man to say ‘No God but He’ it brings no gain; it has no worth at all I think, unless affirmed by heart and brain.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “تصوف” (Mysticism) 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 poem۴ / ۵