فقر
زندگے آنرا سکون غار و کوہزندگی این را ز مرگ باشکوہ
English translation
Life for the former is solitude in caves and mountains,* life for the latter flows from a glorious death;
* Iqbal quotes (Bal-i Jibril) from Rumi: The policy of our faith is holy war and glory, the policy in Christianity: caves and mountains.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اس کی زندگی غار و کوہ کا سکون ہے؛ اس کی زندگی مرگ باشکوہ (شہادت کی موت) ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 31 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 poem۳۱ / ۷۲