Poetry

Obedience

Monomohan DuttTrans. Syed Naquib Muslim

Anything that is attracted by your Self
Be advised to give it up.
Your have gained Life from God,
And so to Him your Self resign.
He who obeys the word from conscience
Great persons call him obedience.
He who wittingly disobeys injunctions divine,
Slowly shall engender his own ruin.
He who all the time disobeys
Receives from God all disgrace.
Obedience is the beautiful edifice of service
Its exterior is devotion, its entrance patience.
Syed Naquib Muslim is a senior civil servant and connoisseur of literature