فقر
پست فکر و دون نہاد و کور ذوقمکتب و ملای او محروم شوق
English translation
Lowly in thought, mean of nature, vulgar in taste, its teachers and religious preceptors are devoid of fervour;
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
مسلمان پست فکر ، کم ہمت اور کور ذوق ہو چکا ہے؛ اس کے مکتب اور علما سب محروم شوق ہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 48 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 poem۴۸ / ۷۲