فقر
باطن این عصر را نشاختیداو اول خویش را در باختی
English translation
You did not understand the real character of this age, and have lost the wager in the very first move.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
تو نے اس دور کے اندرون کو نہ پہچانا ؛ پہلے ہی داؤ میں اپنے آپ کو ہار دیا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 60 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 poem۶۰ / ۷۲