جب عشق سکھاتا ہے آداب خود آگاہی
دارا و سکندر سے وہ مرد فقیر اولیہو جس کی فقیری میں بوئے اسد اللہی
English translation
A person poor and destitute, who walks in steps of God’s Lion bold, is more exalt’d than monarchs great: He spurns the worldly wealth and gold.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “جب عشق سکھاتا ہے آداب خود آگاہی” (Jab ishq sikhaata hai aadaab-e-khud aagaahi) in the section Odes Part-II, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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