برگ و ساز او ز قرآن عظیممرد درویشی نگنجد در گلیم

English translation

Its whole equipment is derived from the Great Qur’an. A dervish cannot be contained in a blanket.*
* Shaikh Sa’di says in Gulistatan that two kings cannot co-exist in a kingdom while two dervishes can be easily accommodated in a single blanket. Iqbal has employed Sa’di’s phraseology to express his idea. For Sa’di, a dervish is simply a poor man who is forced by circumstances to be content with the least. A dervish, for Iqbal, is poor by choice and is ambitious for the highest in the world, highest of course not in the material sense.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

فقر کا سامان قرآن عظیم ہے؛ مرد درویش گدڑی میں نہیں سماتا۔