فقر
احتساب خویش کن از خود مرویکدو دم از غیر خود بیگانہ شو
English translation
Subject yourself to examination and do not forget yourself; be forgetful of the other-than-yourself for a while.*
* In one of his addresses, Iqbal says, elucidating as if the verses here: The Indian Muslim has long ceased to explore the depth of his inner life. The result is that lie has ceased to live in the full glow and colour of life.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اپنے آپ سے نہ بھاگ بلکہ اپنا احتساب کر تھوڑی دیر کے لیے غیروں سے بیگانہ ہو جا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 62 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 poem۶۲ / ۷۲