None
غریبی میں ہوں محسود امیریکہ غیرت مند ہے میری فقیریحذر اس فقر و درویشی سے، جس نےمسلماں کو سکھا دی سر بزیری
English translation
I’m envied by rich in a poor state too, as envy for honour is my view. Shun the faqr’s form which may ever lead, a Muslim to bow in want and need.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
محسود امیری: جس پر امیر بھی حسد کرے۔سر بزیری: کسی کے آگے جھکنا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “None” (Ghareebi mein hoon mahsood ameeri) in the section Quatrains, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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