غزل
تو مری نظر میں کافر، میں تری نظر میں کافرترا دیں نفس شماری، مرا دیں نفس گدازی
English translation
You are a heathen in my view, the same to you may seem my creed: To count the breath, your Faith and goal, while melting breath my job and deed.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
نفس شماري: سانس گننا۔نفس گدازي: سانس کو گرم کرنا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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