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Jaan Hatheli Par Lena

जान हथेली पर लेना
Meaning

To risk one's life; to put one's life in one's palm.

Literally: to take one's life onto the palm

See it in the verse

Jaan Hatheli Par Lena in Iqbal’s couplets

Nigah buland, sukhan dilnawaz, jaan pur-soz
Yahi hai rakht-e-safar mir-e-karvan ke liye
A lofty gaze, speech that wins the heart, a soul that burns with feeling — this alone is the travelling kit a caravan's leader needs.
Leadership · Aspiration
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