اعجاز ہے کسی کا یا گردش زمانہ!
یہ بندگی خدائی، وہ بندگی گدائییا بندہ خدا بن یا بندہ زمانہ!
English translation
If slave to God, you grow divine, if slave to world a beggar mean: You are the master of your fate, so make the choice the two between.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 7 in “اعجاز ہے کسی کا یا گردش زمانہ!” (Aijaaz hai kisi ka ya gardish-e-zamana!) in the section Odes Part-II, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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