مدرسہ
اس جنوں سے تجھے تعلیم نے بیگانہ کیاجو یہ کہتا تھا خرد سے کہ بہانے نہ تراش
English translation
The knowledge that this age imparts hs made forget you craze and zest, which bade the mind to keep away from pretexts that on truth didn't rest.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 5 in “مدرسہ” (The School) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۵