Mujhe kyun ho tera hai ya mera
“If the stars run crooked, is the sky yours or mine? Why should I fret over the world, when the world is yours and not my charge.”
मुझे क्यूँ हो तेरा है या मेरा
The couplet in Devanagari — it carries the authenticity of the original, and every Hindi reader can read it.
مجھے فکر جہاں کیوں ہو جہاں تیرا ہے یا میرا
The couplet as Iqbal wrote it, in Urdu (Nastaliq).
Iqbal draws a sharp line between what is his responsibility and what is not. He will not be paralysed by worry over a cosmos he did not design and cannot govern. The selfhood he prizes is freed by this clarity: do your own work fully, and refuse the crushing weight of problems that were never yours to carry.
Anxiety often comes from shouldering things outside your control. Be precise about your circle of responsibility, act fully inside it, and put down the rest.
Khuda bande se khud pooche, bata teri raza kya hai
Tu shaheen hai, basera kar paharon ki chattanon mein
Tu agar mera nahin banta na ban, apna to ban