فقر
دولت اغیار را رحمت شمردرقص ھا گرد کلیسا کرد و مرد
English translation
danced in adoration round the Church and died.*
* These lines refer to certain religious leaders of the Subcontinent who justified theologically the alien political rule of the British and enumerated the so-called blessings of their administration.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اس نے غیروں کی دولت کو رحمت شمار کیا؛ وہ کلیسا کے گرد رقص کرتا ہوا مر گیا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 56 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 poem۵۶ / ۷۲