اﷲالصمد

تا توانی کیمیا شو گل مشودر جھان منعم شو و سائل مشو

English translation

So far as in thee lies become that Stone of the philosophers, not the base dross; a benefactor be, not a petitioner for others’ alms.

Urdu translation

جہاں تک ہو سکے کیمیا بن؛ مٹی نہ بن، دنیا میں غنا اختیار کر سائل نہ بن۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 11 of 50 in “⁨اﷲالصمد⁩” (‘God, The Self-Subsistent’) 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.

Read it in the poem

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