احکام الہی
تقدیر کے پابند نباتات و جماداتمومن فقط احکام الہی کا ہے پابند
English translation
Herbs, vegetables and minerals alike adhere to what Fate pre-ordains: But Muslim true obeys laws of God, all else abhors and much disdains.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “احکام الہی” (Decrees Of 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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