فقر و ملوکیت
اب ترا دور بھی آنے کو ہے اے فقر غیورکھا گئی روح فرنگی کو ہوائے زروسیم
English translation
O zealous Faqr, you will get your grandeur old, the Frankish soul is stained with greed of wealth and gold.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “فقر و ملوکیت” (Poverty And Monarchy) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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