آگ اس کی پھونک دیتی ہے برنا و پیر کو
تو اپنی سرنوشت اب اپنے قلم سے لکھخالی رکھی ہے خامہ حق نے تری جبیں
English translation
You can build up your luck, if courage you can show: For God has written naught with His pen on your brow.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 5 in “آگ اس کی پھونک دیتی ہے برنا و پیر کو” (Aag is ki phoonk deti hai barna o peer ko) in the section Meditations of Mihrab Gul Afghan, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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