فقر
تا کجا بی غیرت دین زیستناے مسلمان مردن است این زیستن
English translation
How long can you live careless of the plight of your faith? O Muslim, this kind of life is as good as death.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اے مسلمان تو کب تک غیرت دین کے بغیر زندگی بسر کرے گا؛ یہ زندگی نہیں موت ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 39 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 poem۳۹ / ۷۲