فقر

عصر ما ما را ز ما بیگانہ کرداز جمال مصطفے بیگانہ کرد

English translation

This age has estranged us from ourselves and cut us asunder from the beauty of Mustafa* (S.A.W.)
* Beauty of Mustafa: It signifies cultural heritage of the Muslims which is based on the Qur’an and the Sunnah. Western education, as planned by the British rulers, deprived new generation of the inspiration that it would have derived from this heritage.)

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

اس دور نے ہمیں اپنے آپ سے بے گانہ کر دیا ہے ؛ اس نے ہمیں جمال مصطفے (صلعم) سے نا آشنا کر دیا ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 58 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 poem

۵۸ / ۷۲