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Paani Phera Jana

पानी फेरा जाना
Meaning

For one's efforts to be ruined or brought to nothing.

Literally: for water to be poured over

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Paani Phera Jana in Iqbal’s couplets

Pani pani kar gai mujh ko qalandar ki ye baat
Tu jhuka jab ghair ke aage na man tera na tan
The wandering sage's words washed over me with shame: the moment you bow before another, neither your mind nor your body is your own.
Selfhood · Courage · Freedom
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