سلطانی
کیا گیا ہے غلامی میں مبتلا تجھ کوکہ تجھ سے ہو نہ سکی فقر کی نگہبانی
English translation
You have got bondage as a fit reward, for you have failed to keep on Faqr a guard.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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