جاوید کے نام

مرا طریق امیری نہیں، فقیری ہےخودی نہ بیچ، غریبی میں نام پیدا کر!

English translation

My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth; barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 5 in “⁨جاوید کے نام⁩” (To Javed) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

Read it in the poem

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