غزل
نہ میں اعجمی نہ ہندی، نہ عراقی و حجازیکہ خودی سے میں نے سیکھی دوجہاں سے بے نیازی
English translation
I don't belong to Fars or Hind, to Iraq or Hejaz don't trace my breed. The Self to me this much has taught spurn both the worlds and pay no heed.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “غزل” (Ghazal) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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