دعا
میرا نشیمن نہیں درگہ میر و وزیرمیرا نشیمن بھی تو، شاخ نشیمن بھی تو
English translation
O God, at gates of rich I do not bow, you are my dwelling place and nesting bough.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 11 in “دعا” (Prayer) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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