جاوید سے
دربار شہنشہی سے خوشترمردان خدا کا آستانہ
English translation
The threshold of a Saint is higher far than court of worldly king or mighty Czar.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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.
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