اﷲالصمد
می شناسد شمع او پروانہ رانیک داند خویش و ہم بیگانہ را
English translation
Unto his people, he whose candle-flame knows its own moth, who can distinguish well his own from strangers standing at the gate;
Urdu translation
تو آپ (صلعم) کی شمع اپنے پروانے کو پہچان لے کہ کون ان میں سے اپنے ہیں اور کون بیگانے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 39 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.
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