فقر
قلب او را قوت از جذب و سلوکپیش سلطان نعرہ او "لاملوک"
English translation
His heart’s power flows from ecstasy and sobriety.* His slogan before the king is no kings.
* Jadhb-o suluk: Jadhb, ecstasy, and suluk is traveling on the way and salik is traveler. Jadhb-o suluk are two different vocations of a Sufi, corresponding to the states of sukr (intoxication) and sahw (sobriety) (Reference: Hujwiri’s Kashf al-Mahjub and Shahabuddin Suhrawardi’s Awarif aI-Ma’arif).
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
فقر کا دل جذب و سلوک سے قوت پاتا ہے؛ وہ پادشاہ کے سامنے کوئی پادشاہ کا نعرہ لگاتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 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 poem۱۳ / ۷۲