تازہ پھر دانش حاضر نے کیا سحر قدیم
مرد درویش کا سرمایہ ہے آزادی و مرگہے کسی اور کی خاطر یہ نصاب زر و سیم
English translation
No wealth is owned by dervish free; at call of death he yields with glee: He has not either gold or land; of him no one can tithe demand.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 5 in “تازہ پھر دانش حاضر نے کیا سحر قدیم” (Taaza phir danish-e-haazir ne kiya sehar-e-qadeem) 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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