مغربی تہذیب
فساد قلب و نظر ہے فرنگ کی تہذیبکہ روح اس مدنیت کی رہ سکی نہ عفیفرہے نہ روح میں پاکیزگی تو ہے ناپیدضمیر پاک و خیال بلند و ذوق لطیف
English translation
The culture that prevails in West corrupts the heart and gaze of man, its soil is full or stains and spots that at leisure one can scan.
If soul of man becomes defiled, of conscience clean it gets bereft. It soon forgets high aims and ends; no taste refined in it is left.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
عفیف: پاکیزہ، پاکدامن۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “مغربی تہذیب” (Western Civilization) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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