قید خانے میں معتمد کی فریاد
جو مری تیغ دو دم تھی، اب مری زنجیر ہےشوخ و بے پروا ہے کتنا خالق تقدیر بھی!
English translation
Once I had a two-edged sword – it turned into the chains that shackle me now. How whimsical and indifferent is the Author of fates.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “قید خانے میں معتمد کی فریاد” (Mu‘Tamid’s Lament In Prison) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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