مرد مسلمان

بنتے ہیں مری کارگہ فکر میں انجملے اپنے مقدر کے ستارے کو تو پہچان

English translation

Such thoughts that shine like lustrous stars my brain, like workshop, can provide, you can select the star you like, so that your Fate this star may guide.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 8 of 8 in “⁨مرد مسلمان⁩” (A Muslim) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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