گدائی

اس کے نعمت خانے کی ہر چیز ہے مانگی ہوئیدینے والا کون ہے، مرد غریب و بے نوا

English translation

The epicure’s table is loaded with delights, stolen from the needy, stripped of all their rights.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 5 in “⁨گدائی⁩” (Mendicancy) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

Read it in the poem

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