قرب سلطان
تمیز حاکم و محکوم مٹ نہیں سکتیمجال کیا کہ گداگر ہو شاہ کا ہمدوش
English translation
The distinction between the ruler and the ruled cannot disappear; the beggar cannot have the audacity of being equal to the king.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 10 in “قرب سلطان” (Closeness To Kings) 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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