Ki ye hua na jaaye
“The stars take fright at the rise of the human being of dust — afraid that this broken star may yet become a full moon.”
कि ये हुआ मह-ए- न जाए
The couplet in Devanagari — it carries the authenticity of the original, and every Hindi reader can read it.
کہ یہ ٹوٹا ہوا تارا مہ کامل نہ بن جائے
The couplet as Iqbal wrote it, in Urdu (Nastaliq).
Iqbal casts the human being as a fallen, fractured star — and exactly that is what alarms the heavens. The fear is not that the broken thing will stay broken, but that it will rise into a full moon. Potential, not perfection, is what makes the human formidable.
Do not let your present brokenness convince you of your ceiling. Iqbal says even the sky watches a struggling person warily — because what looks like a ruined fragment today can complete itself into something luminous.
Khuda bande se khud pooche, bata teri raza kya hai
Abhi ishq ke imtihan aur bhi hain
Tu agar mera nahin banta na ban, apna to ban