آزاد کی رگ سخت ہے مانند رگ سنگ
آزاد کی رگ سخت ہے مانند رگ سنگمحکوم کی رگ نرم ہے مانند رگ تاک
English translation
A free man’s veins are hard like the stone’s veins, the veins of ruled are soft like veins of soft canes.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “آزاد کی رگ سخت ہے مانند رگ سنگ” (Azad ki rag sakht hai manand rag sang) in the section The Amanuensis of Mullah Zaighum, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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