بندگی نامہ

کوکبے اندر سواد من نبودگردشے اندر نہاد من نبود

English translation

There was no star in my attendence; revolutionary movement was not in my nature.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

میرے جلو میں کوئ ستارہ نہ تھا، مجھے ابھی گردش عطا نہیں ہوئ تھی۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 31 in “⁨بندگی نامہ⁩” (The Book of Servitude) in the section Book of Servitude, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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