Persian · proper noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Pas Cheh Bayad Kard

पस चे बायद कर्द

said PAS-cheh-BAA-yad-KARD

also written: pas che bayad kard, what then must be done, pas chih bayad kard

Meaning

'What, Then, Must Be Done, O Peoples of the East?' — Iqbal's 1936 Persian poem directly answering, in its very title, the world's predicament with a programme of faith, self and action.

See it in the verse

Pas Cheh Bayad Kard in Iqbal’s couplets

Zabar-e-daram tund-o-badkhu mabash
Tu bayad ki bashi, daram go mabash

It is needful that you simply be — let the wealth go, never mind. Do not let gold and silver make you harsh and ill-natured.

Selfhood · Humility · Freedom

Khirad ke pas khabar ke siwa kuchh aur nahin
Tera ilaj nazar ke siwa kuchh aur nahin

Reason holds nothing but information; your true cure is nothing but vision.

Self-Knowledge · Awakening

Related words

ARABIC

Mashriq

The East, the Orient (the opposite of maghrib, the West).

ARABIC

Faqr

Spiritual poverty; the dervish's chosen detachment from wealth and power.

PERSIAN

Khudi

Selfhood; the self, the ego — in the philosophical, not the vain, sense.

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