سلطانی
کسے خبر کہ ہزاروں مقام رکھتا ہےوہ فقر جس میں ہے بے پردہ روح قرآنی
English translation
The lofty states of faqr are known to few, the faqr that brings the soul of Koran to view.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 7 in “سلطانی” (Kingship) 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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