فقر
مرد حق باز آفریند خویش راجز بہ نور حق نبیند خویش را
English translation
The man of faith renews himself; he does not look at himself except in the light of God;*
* Cf. the following verse (Javid Namah): The third witness: consciousness of God’s essence, to behold oneself in the light of God’s essence.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
مرد حق اپنے آپ کو از سر نو تخلیق کرتا ہے؛ وہ اپنے آپ کو صرف حق تعالے کے نور سے دیکھتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 40 of 72 in “فقر” (Asceticism), 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 poem۴۰ / ۷۲