قل ہواللہ احد
گفت تا کی در ہوس گردی اسیرآب و تاب از سورۂ اخلاص گیر
English translation
‘How long’, said he, ‘wilt thou be prisoner to base desire? Get lustre, and new light to light thee, from the Surah of Pure Faith.’
Urdu translation
انہوں نے فرمایا تو کب تک ہوس کا قیدی رہے گا؛ سورہ اخلاص سے حرارت اور چمک حاصل کر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 18 in “قل ہواللہ احد” (Summary Of The Purport Of The Poem In Exegesis Of The Surah Of Pure Faith ‘SAY: HE IS GOD, ONE’) in the section Summary of the Purport of the Poem, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (رموزِ بیخودی), published in 1918.
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