فقر
بر عیار مصطفی خود را زندتا جہانی دیگری پیدا کند
English translation
He measures himself by the standard set by Mustafa, and thus succeeds in creating a new world.*
* According to Iqbal, it was Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.) whose religious experience resulted in the creation of Muslim Community. He says: Muhammad chose solitude upon Mount Hira and for a space saw no other beside himself; our image was then poured into his heart and out of his solitude a nation arose.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اور جناب رسول پاک (صلعم) کے معیار پر اپنے آپ کو پرکھتا اور اس طرح ایک نیا جہان وجود میں لاتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 41 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.
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