فقر
اک فقر سکھاتا ہے صےاد کو نخچیریاک فقر سے کھلتے ہیں اسرار جہاں گیریاک فقر سے قوموں میں مسکینی و دلگیریاک فقر سے مٹی میں خاصیت اکسیریاک فقر ہے شبےری، اس فقر میں ہے میریمیراث مسلمانی، سرمایہء شبیری
English translation
There is a faqr that teaches the hunter to be a prey; there is another that opens the secrets of mastery over the world.
There is a faqr that is the root of needfulness and misery among nations; there is another that turns mere dust into elixir.
There is a faqr that is legend of Shabbir (R.A.), the secret on mastery of world is in this faqr; this tradition of Shabbir (R.A.) is Muslims inheritance.
Translated by the Editors
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “فقر” (Asceticism) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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