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Loh-e-Qalam

लौह-ए-क़लम
said lauh-o-qa-lam
also written: Lauh-o-Qalam,Loh-o-Qalam
Meaning

The Tablet and the Pen, the heavenly instruments by which God recorded all destiny.

Literally: the tablet and the pen

How Iqbal uses it

Iqbal invokes the Tablet and the Pen as the realm of fixed destiny that the empowered self (khudi) can rise to share in.

See it in the verse

Loh-e-Qalam in Iqbal’s couplets

Phool ki patti se kat sakta hai heere ka jigar
Mard-e-nadaan par kalaam-e-narm-o-nazuk be-asar
A diamond's heart can be cut by the petal of a flower — yet on a foolish man, soft and gentle words have no effect.
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Related words
ARABIC

Lauh

The Preserved Tablet on which all destiny and divine decree is inscribed.

ARABIC

Taqdeer

Destiny, fate, the decree of what is to come.

ARABIC

Qalam

Pen; the cosmic Pen that wrote the divine decree upon the Tablet.

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