ہندی اسلام
مسکینی و محکومی و نومیدی جاویدجس کا یہ تصوف ہو وہ اسلام کر ایجاد
English translation
Devise such faith whose mystic thought may have mien meek and slavish trend. And side by side there may persist despair that has no bound and end.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
نوميدي جاويد: ہمیشہ کی ناامیدی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “ہندی اسلام” (Indian Islam) 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