تقدیر
پستی فطرت نے سکھلائی ہے یہ حجت اسےکہتا ہے 'تیری مشیت میں نہ تھا میرا سجود،دے رہا ہے اپنی آزادی کو مجبوری کا نامظالم اپنے شعلہ سوزاں کو خود کہتا ہے دود
English translation
His low grovelling bent of mind has taught the wretch to argue and contend; he says it was pre-ordained, to God he would not bow or bend.
Unfettered freedom though he owns, yet gives it name of much constraint: The tyrant, though a blazing flame, to be mere smoke is his complaint.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
سجود: سجدہ کی جمعحجت: دلیل۔دود: دھواں۔شعلہ سوزاں: جلا دینےوالا شعلہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “تقدیر” (Fate: (Satan And God)) 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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