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.
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