فقر
آتش ما سوزناک از خاک اوشعلہ ترسد از خس و خاشاک او
English translation
It is through his dust that our fire glows and burns, the flame trembles before the meanest particles of his dust.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اس کی خاک سے ہماری آگ میں تپش ہے؛ اسی کے خس و خاشاک سے شعلہ ڈرتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 14 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.
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