قرب سلطان
شریک بزم امیر و وزیر و سلطاں ہولڑا کے توڑ دے سنگ ہوس سے شیشہء ہوش
English translation
Join the assemblies of the rich, the minister and the king; smash to pieces conscience’ goblet with greed’s stone.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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