فقر کے ہیں معجزات تاج و سریر و سپاہ
علم کا مقصود ہے پاکی عقل و خردفقر کا مقصود ہے عفت قلب و نگاہ
English translation
By means of learning mind and brain, no doubt, become refined and pure: Faqr makes the heart and gaze of man from earthly filth and dross secure.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “فقر کے ہیں معجزات تاج و سریر و سپاہ” (Faqr ke hain mo'jazaat taaj o sareer o sipah) 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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