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پُختہ افکار کہاں ڈھونڈنے جائے کوئی
اس زمانے کی ہوا رکھتی ہے ہر چیز کو خام
Pukhta afkar kahan dhundne jaye koi
Is zamane ki hawa rakhti hai har chiz ko kham
مَدرسہ عقل کو آزاد تو کرتا ہے مگر
چھوڑ جاتا ہے خیالات کو بے ربط و نظام
Madrasa aql ko azad to karta hai magar
Chhod jata hai khayalat ko be-rabt o nizam
مُردہ، ’لا دینیِ افکار سے افرنگ میں عشق
عقل بے ربطیِ افکار سے مشرق میں غلام!
Murda, la-dini-e-afkar se Afrang mein ishq
Aql be-rabti-e-afkar se Mashriq mein ghulam!
Source: Zarb-e-Kalim (1936) — section Taleem-o-Tarbiyat, nazm
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Three couplets on the present age. Where can one find mature thought when the air of the times keeps everything raw? The school frees the mind but leaves its ideas without order or connection. In the West, the poet says, love has died of thought without faith; in the East, reason is enslaved by thought without order.
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