ka ho ja, ka ho ja
“You are the secret of creation — become visible to your own eyes. Become the confidant of your selfhood, the interpreter of the divine.”
का हो जा, का हो जा
The couplet in Devanagari — it carries the authenticity of the original, and every Hindi reader can read it.
خودی کا رازداں ہو جا خدا کا ترجماں ہو جا
The couplet as Iqbal wrote it, in Urdu (Nastaliq).
Iqbal tells you that the mystery you keep searching the universe for is housed inside you. The task is not to acquire it but to become visible to yourself — to befriend your own selfhood until you can speak for the deepest thing you carry.
You spend enormous energy understanding the world and almost none understanding yourself. Iqbal reverses the priority: become the confidant of your own self first. Everything you are looking for is already on the inside.
Khuda bande se khud pooche, bata teri raza kya hai
Tu agar mera nahin banta na ban, apna to ban
Nek jo raah ho us rah pe chalana mujh ko