آزادی فکر
آزادی افکار سے ہے ان کی تباہیرکھتے نہیں جو فکر و تدبر کا سلیقہہو فکر اگر خام تو آزادی افکارانسان کو حیوان بنانے کا طریقہ
English translation
Free thinking can bring 'bout the ruin of those whose thoughts are low and mean: They don't possess the mode and style of though (that may be chaste and clean.
If thoughts are raw and immature no good accrues to man in least: The utmost. that such thoughts can do is change of wan to state of beast.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “آزادی فکر” (Freedom Of Thought) 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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