در اسرار شریعت

اے خوش آن منعم کہ چون درویش زیستدر چنین عصری خدا اندیش زیست

English translation

Praise be to the rich person who lives like a dervish and is God-oriented in an age like ours.
(Iqbal characterizes the present age as lacking in spiritual orientation. If amidst such an environment, a person, having wealth, lives a simple life of piety and abstinence; surely it is a matter of great significance.)

Translated by Jamil Naqvi

Urdu translation

مبارک ہے وہ دولتمند جو درویش کی مانند زندگی بسر کرتا ہے؛ جو اس زمانے میں بھی اللہ تعالے کو یاد رکھتا ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 10 of 49 in “⁨در اسرار شریعت⁩” (The Essence Of The Shari’Ah), 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

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