محکمات عالم قرا نے: خلافت آدم

او امام و او صلوت و او حرماو مداد و او کتاب و او قلم

English translation

Himself is Imam, prayer and sanctuary, himself the Ink, himself the Book and the Pen.

Urdu translation

وہ امام ہے وہی صلوۃ اور وہی حرم ؛ وہی سیاہی ہے، وہی لوح محفوظ اور وہی قلم۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 37 in “⁨محکمات عالم قرا نے: خلافت آدم⁩” (The Foundations Of The Koranic World Man: God’s Vicegerent) in the section The Sphere of Mecury, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Javid Nama (⁨جاوید نامہ⁩), published in 1932.

Read it in the poem

۶ / ۳۷