Hai ki ise
“Do not look at the garden of existence like a stranger — it is a thing worth seeing; look at it again and again.”
है देखने की इसे देख
The couplet in Devanagari — it carries the authenticity of the original, and every Hindi reader can read it.
ہے دیکھنے کی چیز اسے بار بار دیکھ
The couplet as Iqbal wrote it, in Urdu (Nastaliq).
Iqbal asks for an engaged, awake way of seeing. The world is not a backdrop to pass through indifferently; it is a garden, and indifference is the real poverty. To look bar bar — again and again — is to refuse the dullness that treats wonder as ordinary.
Familiarity quietly drains the colour from your days, until you move through your own life like a tourist who has stopped looking. Iqbal's instruction is simple: look again, and keep looking, until the world stops being wallpaper.
Tu agar mera nahin banta na ban, apna to ban
Zindagi shama ki surat ho khudaya meri
Har jagah mere chamakne se ujala ho jaye