محبت
مرا فقر بہتر ہے اسکندری سےیہ آدم گری ہے، وہ آئینہ سازی
English translation
My poverty is better than imperial pomp, one maketh man; the other maketh glass.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 5 in “محبت” (Love) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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