جدت
اغیار کے افکار و تخیل کی گدائیکیا تجھ کو نہیں اپنی خودی تک بھی رسائی؟
English translation
You beg and borrow thoughts of others' brains, to find approach to Self, don't take much pains.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “جدت” (Newness) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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