قرب سلطان
جہاں میں خواجہ پرستی ہے بندگی کا کمالرضاے خواجہ طلب کن قباے رنگیں پوش
English translation
In the world adoration of the master is the climax of devotion: ‘Seek the pleasure of the master and have the beautiful tunic’.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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