لا الہ الا اﷲ
ضرب او ہر "بود" را سازد "نبود"تا برون آئی ز گرداب وجود
English translation
Its blow changes every being into non-being, so that thou comest out of the whirlpool of Existence.
(The point Iqbal wishes to emphasise here is that one who follows Tawhid in spirit feels everything besides himself and God as of no value and hence insignificant and unreal. One must, however, guard here against a misconception. Iqbal’s normal position is that the world of matter is real and not illusory.)
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اس کی ضرب ہر موجود کو مٹا دیتی ہے تاکہ تو موجود کے بھنور سے باہر آ جائے (لا موجود الا اﷲ)۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 of 34 in “لا الہ الا اﷲ” (There is no god but Allah), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۱۳ / ۳۴