Durr-e-Sameen

The refrain from the phonograph comes this way;
Search for God with your heart, not with abstraction

Till your deeds are informed by a purified heart, one that that doesn't sway;
No better will be your deeds than going around an idol in circumambulation

As long as spirituality lies dormant, moribund, and akin to lifeless clay;
Nothing, but nothing, is to be gained from religious sparring, from wars of opposition

Futile is that faith which is devoid of God's true way;
Servile, too, that faith from which absent is divine intervention

That religion which doesn't create conviction is idle sport, mere games that people play;
That religion is drained of meaning which lacks God's support—it is, in fact, misdirection

That religion is from God wherein rivers of spirituality gush and hold sway;
Without belief in a Living God, religion is robbed of its central dimension

That religion is from God which leads you to God's way;
What use is that faith which offers no solution?

Otherwise, faith is enfeebled, enervated and lacking the power to stay;
Unable to draw one out of the world's pull, slavishly following worldly gyration

Those lacking faith, undeveloped in spiritual insights, with mere lip profession at play;
Idol-worship though they may have eschewed, they remain enslaved—in need of emancipation

The Criteria of a True Faith (Urdu)