بڈھے بلوچ کی نصیحت بیٹے کو
غیرت ہے بڑی چیز جہان تگ و دو میںپہناتی ہے درویش کو تاج سر دارا
English translation
In tug and pull’s race envy is a grace, which puts Darius1 crown on poor man’s face.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 11 in “بڈھے بلوچ کی نصیحت بیٹے کو” (An Advice Of Old Baluch To His Son) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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