ho to hai abhi
“Reason ripens when it learns to calculate advantage; but love that calculates advantage is still unripe.”
हो -अंदेश तो है अभी
The couplet in Devanagari — it carries the authenticity of the original, and every Hindi reader can read it.
عشق ہو مصلحت اندیش تو ہے خام ابھی
The couplet as Iqbal wrote it, in Urdu (Nastaliq).
Iqbal grants that prudence is exactly what matures the intellect; weighing costs and benefits is reason doing its job well. But love works by an opposite law. Love that hedges, that protects itself and counts the return, has not yet come of age. True passion and commitment mature only when they stop calculating.
Use cool calculation for decisions of strategy; that is where it belongs. But the things you truly love, your work, your people, your purpose, ask for commitment that does not keep one eye on the exit.
Khuda bande se khud pooche, bata teri raza kya hai
Abhi ishq ke imtihan aur bhi hain
Tu shaheen hai, basera kar paharon ki chattanon mein