قرب سلطان
مگر غرض جو حصول رضائے حاکم ہوخطاب ملتا ہے منصب پرست و قوم فروش
English translation
But if you aim to have the good pleasure of the ruler; you will have the title of self-seeker and anti-national.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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