جاوید سے
ہے میری بساط کیا جہاں میںبس ایک فغان زیر بامی
English translation
My reach and might in world is this alone that 'neath the roof I cry, complain and groan.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
زیر بامی: چھت کے نیچے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 18 of 33 in “جاوید سے” (To Javaid) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۱۸ / ۳۳