صدیق
کی عرض نصف مال ہے فرزند و زن کا حقباقی جو ہے وہ ملت بیضا پہ ہے نثار
English translation
He exclaimed, ‘Half wealth is the son and wife’s share; the rest is made a present to the Ummah in sacrifice.’
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 13 in “صدیق” (Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A.) 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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