فقر
می نگیرد جز بہ آن صحرا مقامکاندرو شاہین گریزد از حمام
English translation
He does not settle but in places where a falcon runs away from before a dove.*
* Iqbal seems to imply that as a result of such people, social justice is fully established and the weak (symbolized here by dove) are no longer afraid of the strong (symbolized here by falcon).
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
مرد فقیر صرف اس صحرا میں مقام کرتا ہے جہاں شاہیں کبوتر کا مقابلہ کرنے سے گریز کرتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 of 72 in “فقر” (Asceticism), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۱۲ / ۷۲