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Patthar Ki Lakeer

पत्थर की लकीर

also written: pathar ki lakeer

Meaning

Something fixed and irrevocable; set in stone.

Literally: a line on stone

See it in the verse

Patthar Ki Lakeer in Iqbal’s couplets

Patthar ki mooraton mein samjha hai tu Khuda hai
Khaak-e-watan ka mujh ko har zarra devta hai

You have imagined that God dwells within stone idols — for me, every single speck of my homeland's dust is itself a deity.

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