سر اکبر حیدری، صدراعظم حیدرآباد دکن کے نام
غیرت فقر مگر کر نہ سکی اس کو قبولجب کہا اس نے یہ ہے میری خدائی کی زکات!
English translation
My faqr’s envy but took not this role, when he said it was His Godship’s dole.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “سر اکبر حیدری، صدراعظم حیدرآباد دکن کے نام” (To Sir Akbar Hydari Prime Minister Of Hyderabad Deccan) in the section The Amanuensis of Mullah Zaighum, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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