مرگ خودی
خودی کی موت سے پیر حرم ہوا مجبورکہ بیچ کھائے مسلماں کا جام ہ احرام!
English translation
Demise of Self has made divine, who keeps a watch on Holy Shrine, to sell the robes that pilgrims don, on sale proceeds he lives upon.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
جامہ احرام: حاجیوں کے ان سلے کپڑے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “مرگ خودی” (Death Of The Ego) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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