نکتہ توحید
مقام فقر ہے کتنا بلند شاہی سےروش کسی کی گدایانہ ہو تو کیا کہیے
English translation
A Darvesh holds a loftier rank than a monarch who wears a crown; there is no cure for such a man, who, like paupers, has sunk down.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 5 in “نکتہ توحید” (Unity Of God) 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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