دل بیدار فاروقی، دل بیدار کراری
مجھے تہذیب حاضر نے عطا کی ہے وہ آزادیکہ ظاہر میں تو آزادی ہے، باطن میں گرفتاری
English translation
The freedom that this age does grant does ever freedom’s essence want: Though freedom seems to outward sight, yet is no less than prison tight.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 7 in “دل بیدار فاروقی، دل بیدار کراری” (Dil-e-bedaar Farooqi, dil-e-bedaar Karari) in the section Odes Part-II, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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