مرد حر

سینۂ این مردمی جوشد چو دیگپیش او کوہ گران یک تودہ ریگ

English translation

His breast is in ferment like a boiling kettle*, for him a solid mountain is like a heap of sand.
* It is related of the Prophet (S.A.W.) that noise like that of a boiling pot used to issue from his breast while he was saying his prayers.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

ایسے مرد کا سینہ دیگ کی مانند جوش مارتا ہے ، اس کے سامنے کوہ ء گراں بھی ریت کا تودہ ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 26 of 31 in “⁨مرد حر⁩” (The Freeman), 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 poem

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