اﷲالصمد

چون نظر در پردہ ہای خویش باشمی پر و اما بجای خویش باش

English translation

Be like the gaze, wrapped round in thy own veils; rise on the wing, but ever wheel back home;

Urdu translation

نظر کی مانند اپنے پردوں کے اندر رہ؛ پرواز کر مگر اپنی جگہ پر رہتے ہوئے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 47 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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