اﷲالصمد

بر زبانت گفتگوہا مستعاردر دل تو آرزوہا مستعار

English translation

Thy very speech is borrowed, and thy heart dilates with aspirations not thine own.

Urdu translation

تیری زبان کی گفتگو اور دل کی آرزو سب مستعار ہیں۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 35 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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