The first line pours colloquial scorn on the value of both this world and the next; for more examples of this very common idiomatic use of , see 4,3 . The tone makes the two worlds sound, at best, tawdry and cheap, mere commercial properties available for money-- and at worst, fraudulent, deceptive shell games with no 'reality' or 'substance' at all. The two worlds are made to seem so parallel, in fact, that the chief difference between them seems to be that one involves cash and the other credit. The first line strongly evokes the first line of 174,10 , in which a similar scorn is heaped on the 'reality' of Paradise. (For more on such 'two worlds' constructions, see 18,2 .) In English we often use 'take' ('I'll take it!') to mean 'buy'; in Urdu the idiom is more prominent, so that part of the normal range of meaning for , 'to take', is 'to buy'. Thus the second line can have the sense that the speaker's lofty courage 'bought' him from himself-- nicely echoing the commercial imagery of the first line (and also creating a complex image of the speaker as both his own seller, and his own buyer). But the line can also mean that the speaker's lofty courage somehow 'took' him (away?) from himself-- seized him, or compelled him, or perhaps translated him into an entirely new sphere of self-lessness [] in which the wheeling and dealing of this world and the next were equally meaningless and unattractive. Or perhaps his radical independence of spirit-- on this see 9,1 -- made him refuse all external offers, so that his transactions were with himself alone. This verse obviously belongs to the 'snide remarks about Paradise' set; for others, see 35,9 . Compare Mir's M 69,7 , which has a similarly radical sense of autonomy and self-reliance. graphics/cash.jpg