لائوں وہ تنکے کہیں سے آشیانے کے لیے
جمع کر خرمن تو پہلے دانہ دانہ چن کے توآ ہی نکلے گی کوئی بجلی جلانے کے لیے
English translation
Collect your harvest first by picking it grain by grain; some thunderbolt will surely come out to annihilate it.
(Verses 4 and 5 mean that the highest felicity for a Lover of God is to sacrifice all his hard-earned worldly possessions in His cause.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 7 in “لائوں وہ تنکے کہیں سے آشیانے کے لیے” (Laaoon woh tinkay kahin se aashiyanay ke liye) in the section The Ghazals 1, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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