Koi is mein bhi hai
“The travellers' destination is both far away and hard to reach — yet somewhere in this caravan there is also a leader of the caravan.”
कोई इस क़ाफ़िले में भी है
The couplet in Devanagari — it carries the authenticity of the original, and every Hindi reader can read it.
کوئی اس قافلہ میں قافلہ سالار بھی ہے
The couplet as Iqbal wrote it, in Urdu (Nastaliq).
Iqbal acknowledges the difficulty honestly: the road is long and the going is rough. But he does not leave the traveller alone with that fact. Within the very caravan struggling forward, a guide already exists — leadership is not waiting elsewhere; it is among the marchers.
When a goal looks distant and the path looks hard, Iqbal's reassurance is that the one who can lead is already inside the group. Sometimes the caravan-leader the journey needs is simply someone in it who decides to step up.
Abhi ishq ke imtihan aur bhi hain
Sitaron pe jo dalte hain kamand
Zindagi shama ki surat ho khudaya meri