محبت
نہ محتاج سلطاں، نہ مرعوب سلطاںمحبت ہے آزادی و بے نیازی
English translation
Love is freedom and contentment, not at the mercy of kingly power.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “محبت” (Love) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۵