مردان خدا

وجود انھی کا طواف بتاں سے ہے آزادیہ تیرے مومن و کافر، تمام زناری

English translation

This life is free from ugly taint that makes men round the fane to tread O God! The faithful and pagan all have worn on shoulders sacred thread.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 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.

Read it in the poem

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