اﷲالصمد
راہ دشوار است سامان کم بگیردر جہان آزاد زی آزاد میر
English translation
The road is arduous; go light-accoutred, if thou wouldst attain; unfettered live thy days, unfettered die.
Urdu translation
راہ کٹھن ہے تھوڑا سامان لے؛ دنیا میں آزاد رہ اور آزاد مر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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