فقر
فقر عریان گرمی بدر و حنینفقر عریان بانگ تکبیر حسین
English translation
Naked Faqr is the warmth of Badr and Hunain,* it is the sound of Husain’s takbir.**
* Badr and Hunain are places where two famous battles were fought by Muslims against the unbelievers.
**Husain, the son of Ali the fourth Caliph R.A.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
فقر عریاں غزوات بدر و حنین کی گرمی ہے؛ فقر عریاں حضرت حسین (رضی اللہ) کی تکبیر کی آواز ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 35 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 poem۳۵ / ۷۲