فقر و راہبی
یہ فقر مرد مسلماں نے کھو دیا جب سےرہی نہ دولت سلمانی و سلیمانی
English translation
Since Muslim true of Faqr has been bereft, no Salman's Faith or Solomon's awe are left.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 6 in “فقر و راہبی” (Faqr And Monkery) 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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