Wisdom is a Great Good
WISDOM IS A GREAT GOOD
| God has declared, Wisdom is a great good; | |
| wherever you may see this good, seize it. | |
| Science gives pinions to words and sounds, | |
| bestows purest substance on things without substance; | |
| science finds a way even to heaven’s zenith | |
| to pluck the sight out of the sun’s own eye. | |
| Its transcript is the commentary of the cosmos, | |
| the fate of the cosmos hangs upon its determining; | |
| it says to the desert, ‘Bubble up!’ and it bubbles, | |
| to the sea, ‘Produce a mirage!’ and it produces it. | |
| Its eye beholds all the events in creation | |
| that it may see the sure foundations of creation; | |
| if it attaches its heart to God, it is prophecy, | |
| but if it is a stranger to God, it is unbelief. | |
| Science without the heart’s glow is pure evil, | |
| for then its light is darkness over sea and land, | |
| its rouge renders the whole world black and blind, | |
| its springtide scatters the leaves of all being, | |
| sea, plain and mountain, quiet garden and villa | |
| are ravaged by the bombs of its aeroplanes. | |
| It is its fire that burns the heart of Europe, | |
| from it springs the joy of raiding and robbing; | |
| it turns topsy-turvy the course of the days, | |
| despoils the peoples of their capital. | |
| Its power becomes the faithful ally of Satan; | |
| light becomes fire by association with fire. | |
| To slay Satan is indeed a difficult task, | |
| since he is hidden within the depths of the heart; | |
| better is it to make him a true Mussulman, | |
| better to smite him dead with the sword of the Koran. | |
| God save us from majesty that is without beauty, | |
| God save us from separation without union! | |
| Science without love is a demonic thing, | |
| science together with love is a thing divine; | |
| science and wisdom without love are a corpse, | |
| reason is an arrow that never pierced the target. | |
| With the vision of God make the blind to see, | |
| convert Abu Lahab into an impetuous Haidar! - Iqbal, Javed Nama |
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