فلسفہ
یا مردہ ہے یا نزع کی حالت میں گرفتارجو فلسفہ لکھا نہ گیا خون جگر سے
English translation
As good as dead is science and art, which take not birth from bleeding heart.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 6 in “فلسفہ” (Philosophy) 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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