حرفی چند با امت عربیہ

بگذر از دشت و در و کوہ و دمنخیمہ را اندر وجود خویش زن

English translation

Leave aside these deserts, mountains and valleys; pitch your tent in your own being.
(In the development of khudi this is the first stage, where the individual is expected to detach himself completely from the outside world and concentrate on his own self. In Zabur-i ‘Ajam, Allamah says: ‘Reach within yourself and retire from this noisy world, throw yourself into the inner recesses of your heart’.)

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

صحرا، آبادی، پہاڑ اور وادی کو چھوڑ وجود کے اندر خیمہ زن ہو۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 33 of 39 in “⁨حرفی چند با امت عربیہ⁩” (A Few Words to the Arab Nation), 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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