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Do waqt ki roti

दो वक़्त की रोटी
Meaning

A bare, hand-to-mouth livelihood.

Literally: two meals' worth of bread

See it in the verse

Do waqt ki roti in Iqbal’s couplets

Hazaron saal nargis apni be-noori pe roti hai
Badi mushkil se hota hai chaman mein deedavar paida
For thousands of years the narcissus weeps over its own sightlessness — only with great difficulty is a truly seeing one born in the garden.
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