گدائی
مانگنے والا گدا ہے، صدقہ مانگے یا خراجکوئی مانے یا نہ مانے، میرو سلطاں سب گدا!
English translation
He is a beggar who begs money, be it large or small, Kings with royal pomp and pride, in fact, are beggars all.’
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 5 in “گدائی” (Mendicancy) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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