لا الہ الا اﷲ

در محبت پختہ کی گردد خلیلتا نگردد لا سوی الا دلیل

English translation

How can Khalil (friend) be ripe in love unless negation guides him towards affirmation?
(Reference is to the life of Prophet Abraham (A.S.). See the Qur’an, vi 76-80 where Abraham’s experience of ‘the kingdom of the heavens and the earth’ is described, involving denial of all false gods and attaining certainty by affirming his complete submission to Him ‘Who originated the heavens and the earth’, and he was not of the polytheists.)

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

خلیل ا لّہ کی محبت میں کیسے پختہ ہو سکتا ہے، جب تک لا اس کی راہنمائی الا اﷲ کی جانب نہ کرے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 31 of 34 in “⁨لا الہ الا اﷲ⁩” (There is no god but Allah), 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 poem

۳۱ / ۳۴