پیرو مرید
ہم نفس میرے سلاطیں کے ندیممیں فقیر بے کلاہ و بے گلیم!
English translation
My peers consort with kings in court, while I am a beggar, uncovered, bare-headed.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
گليم: گدڑی۔نديم: ہم مجلس۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 29 of 52 in “پیرو مرید” (The Mentor And The Disciple) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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