Jo ho to jaati hain
“In bondage neither swords nor clever schemes are of any use; but once a taste for conviction is born, the chains fall away on their own.”
जो हो तो कट जाती हैं ज़ंजीरें
The couplet in Devanagari — it carries the authenticity of the original, and every Hindi reader can read it.
جو ہو ذوق یقیں پیدا تو کٹ جاتی ہیں زنجیریں
The couplet as Iqbal wrote it, in Urdu (Nastaliq).
Iqbal argues that real freedom is won inside before it is won outside. Weapons and tactics fail a people who do not yet believe they are free. The decisive change is the birth of yaqeen, a settled inner certainty; once that takes hold, the chains lose their grip almost by themselves.
If a situation has you trapped, examine the belief before the strategy. No tactic outperforms a person who has genuinely decided they are no longer bound; build that conviction first and the options open up.
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