در اسرار شریعت
از شریعت احسن التقویم شووارث ایمان ابراھیم شو
English translation
Be of the best make through the Shari’ah, and inheritor of Abraham’s faith.
(Reference is to the Qur’anic verse: ‘Certainly We created man in the best make’ (xcv 4). But if he fails to follow the true path, he is brought to ‘the lowest of the low’. Islam has a particularly intimate relation with the personality of Abraham. The Qur’an states that Islam is the ‘faith of your father Abraham’ who ‘named you – Muslim…)
Translated by Jamil Naqvi
Urdu translation
احکام شریعت کی پابندی کر کے احسن التقویم کا مصداق اور ایمان ابرہیم (علیہ) کا وارث بن۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 31 of 49 in “در اسرار شریعت” (The Essence Of The Shari’Ah), 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 poem۳۱ / ۴۹