در حضور رسالت مآب

اے تو ما بیچارگان را ساز و برگوا رہان این قوم را از ترس مرگ

English translation

O you who are helper of helpless people like us, free this nation from the fear of death.
(Fear of death: Iqbal feels that this is the basic malady which destroys the moral strength of man; it is found when men are oriented towards this world and are unmindful of the next world. To be truly creative, one must cultivate indifference to death which in any case is inevitable.)

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

آپ (صلعم) ہم بے چارہ لوگوں کی متاع ہیں؛ اس قوم (مسلم) کو موت کے خوف سے رہائی دلائیے ۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 62 in “⁨در حضور رسالت مآب⁩” (To The Holy Prophet S.A.W.), 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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