فرشتوں کاگیت
تیرے امیر مال مست، تیرے فقیر حال مستبندہ ہے کوچہ گرد ابھی، خواجہ بلند بام ابھی
English translation
The rich are drunk with wealth; the pious are drunk with piety; the homeless wander in the streets, the lords of palaces are Olympian.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 13 in “فرشتوں کاگیت” (Song of the Angels) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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