خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام
گدائی میں بھی وہ اللہ والے تھے غیور اتنےکہ منعم کو گدا کے ڈر سے بخشش کا نہ تھا یارا
English translation
Even in poverty those men of God were so high-minded that the rich could not avoid charity for beggar’s fear.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
منعم: دولتمند۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 12 in “خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام” (Addressed To The Youth Of Islam) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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