حکمت کلیمی
تا نبوت حکم حق جاری کندپشت پا بر حکم سلطان میزند
English translation
As the prophet establishes God’s decrees, he repudiates Caesar’s law.
(Iqbal here brings into sharp contrast God’s Will and king’s will, keeping in mind perhaps the well-known saying of Christ: Render unto Caeser what is Caesar’s and render unto God what is God’s. Iqbal feels that it is not possible for one to be loyal to God’s will and yet to accept and follow the lead of ordinary mundane rulers.)
Translated by Jamil Naqvi
Urdu translation
جب نبوّت اللہ تعالے کو حکم جاری کرتی ہے؛ تو بادشاہ کے حکم کو ٹھکرا دیتی ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 32 in “حکمت کلیمی” (The Wisdom Of Moses), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۱ / ۳۲