The Secular Knowledge Essential For Material Welfare Poem by Mohammad Younus

The secular knowledge essential for material welfare,
As are the flashes of lightning on a rainy day!
They leave you in darkness each time they depart
after flashing across the sky!
Realise the uselessness of the undivine knowledge!
Give up your sole attention on acquiring the secular knowledge!
It keeps you away from your lord,
The giver of spiritual knowledge and wisdom!
Hold on therefore to the eternal teacher for the divine knowledge,
Such that he reveals to you the words that give you
Awareness and enlightenment!

The people of ignorance always we see,
Belch out the words of others,
whom they might have not even seen!
They are like shameless contingent of vacuous parrots!
Who recite, recite, recite, recite,
Only what their trainers have taught them to rote!
And have as a result for a few grains become,
The caged pet birds!
As such they lose all their freedom and potentiality,
To fly up high and higher in the vast skies.

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