غلامی کیا ہے ؟ ذوق حسن و زیبائی سے محرومیجسے زیبا کہیں آزاد بندے، ہے وہی زیبا

English translation

Slavery! Exile from the love of beauty: Beauty! Whatever free men reckon so.
In November, 1933, Aala Hazrath Shaheed Ameer ul Momineen, Nadir Shah Ghazi granted the author permission to visit the shrine of Hakeem Sanai Ghaznavi. These verses were written in commemoration of the event, in imitation of a famous panegyric by the poet.
These verses were written in commemoration of the event, in imitation of a famous panegyric by the poet: ‘We are coming after Sina‘i and Attar.’
While God was addressed in the previous section, the addressee here will be the humanity.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui & V.G. Kiernan