حضور

چار مرگ اندر پی این دیر میرسود خوار و والی و ملا و پیر

English translation

Slowly dying, pursued by four deaths – the usurer, the governor, the mullah, the shaikh.

Urdu translation

اس سخت جان (مسلم) کی گھات میں چار اموات ہیں؛ سود خوری ، حاکم، ملّا اور پیر۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 30 of 81 in “⁨حضور⁩” (The Divine Presence) in the section Beyond the Spheres, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Javid Nama (⁨جاوید نامہ⁩), published in 1932.

Read it in the poem

۳۰ / ۸۱