لا تبدیل لخلق الله
Persian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Arabic لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِخَلْقِ ٱللَّٰهِ (lā tabdīla liḵalqi llāhi, literally “there is no altering for God's creation”), a Quranic phrase in the so-called "verse of Fitrat" (30:24).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /laː tab.diː.la li.xal.qi l.ˈlaːh/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [lɑː t̪ʰäb.d̪iː.lä lɪ.xäl.qɪ llɑːʱ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [lɒː t̪ʰæb.d̪iː.le le.xæl.ɢe llɒːʱ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [lɔ t̪ʰäb.d̪i.lä li.χäl.qi llɔʱ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | lā tabdīla lixalqi llāh |
| Dari reading? | lā tabdīla lixalqi llāh |
| Iranian reading? | lâ tabdile lexalġe llâh |
| Tajik reading? | lo tabdila lixalqi lloh |
Phrase
لا تبدیل لخلق الله • (lā tabdīl lixalq-i l-lāh / lâ tabdil lexalġ-e l-lâh)
- (Classical Persian, rare) a leopard cannot change its spots
- 11th c., Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi, Tarikh-e Beyhaqi, volume 6, The hanging of Hasanak, part one (section 26):
- این بو سهل مردی امامزاده و محتشم و فاضل و ادیب بود، امّا شرارت و زعارتی در طبع وی مؤکّد شده - و لا تبدیل لخلق الله - و با آن شرارت دلسوزی نداشت […]
- īn bū sahl mardē imām-zāda wa muhtašam wa fāzil wa adīb būd, ammā šarārat wa za'āratē dar tab'-i way mu'akkad šuda - wa lā tabdīl lixalq-i l-lāh - wa bā ān šarārat dilsūzī nadāšt […]
- This Bu Sahl was an Imamzadeh and magnificent and noble and knowledgeable man but there was a [kind of] villainy and bad temper fixated in his nature—and there is no altering for God's creation—and with that villainy, he had no mercy […]