وحی
خوب و ناخوب عمل کی ہو گرہ وا کیونکرگر حیات آپ نہ ہو شارح اسرار حیات
English translation
Twixt actions good and bad it's hard to draw a line, unless life undertakes such subtle points to define.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “وحی” (Revelation) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۳