مسلمان کا زوال
اگر جہاں میں مرا جوہر آشکار ہواقلندری سے ہوا ہے، تو نگری سے نہیں
English translation
Wealth has played no part to bring my worth to light; my Faqr this spell has cast, the share of wealth is slight.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
آشکار: ظاہر۔جوہر: صلاحیت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “مسلمان کا زوال” (The Decline of the Muslim) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۴