مردان خدا
ازل سے فطرت احرار میں ہیں دوش بدوشقلندری و قبا پوشی و کلہ داری
English translation
From creation's Immemorial Dawn free born men own a bent of mind, Qalandar's traits donning cloak and crown, such distinctive marks in them we find.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “مردان خدا” (God's Men) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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