اﷲالصمد

"پشت پا زن تخت کیکاوس راسر بدہ از کف مدہ ناموس را"

English translation

‘Trample Kai-Kaus’ throne beneath thy foot;
yield up thy life, but not thy self-respect!’

Urdu translation

'تخت کیکاؤس کو ٹھوکر مار ؛ جان دے دے مگر ناموس ہاتھ سے نہ دے'

About this couplet

This is couplet 13 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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