مرد حر

جان او پایندہ تر گردد ز موتبانگ تکبیرش برون از حرف و صوت

English translation

His soul becomes more everlasting through death; his call of takbir* is beyond words and sounds.
* Takbir, to express greatness of God by saying: Allahu Akbar. ‘Beyond words and sounds’ signifies that his takbir is the result of his conviction and is uttered in spirit rather than in words.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

موت سے اس کی جان اور پائیندہ ہو جاتی ہے (شہدا کو اموات نہ کہو) اس کی بانگ تکبیر الفاظ اور آواز میں نہیں س ماتی۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 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

۵ / ۳۱