مصر ہے حلقہ،کمیٹی میں کچھ کہیں ہم بھیمگر رضائے کلکٹر کو بھانپ لیں تو کہیں

English translation

Insistence is that in the ward committee I should also speak, but I shall speak after guessing if the Collector agreeable with me will be.
(Collector – also known as Deputy Commissioner – is the highest administrative officer at the district level in the Indian sub-continent. He was so powerful during the British rule that the service to which he belonged was said to be the ‘steel frame of the British Empire’. This verse is sarcasm on the state of affairs in which nothing could happen in the district without the implicit or explicit concurrence of the Collector.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

مصر: بضد، اسرار کرنے والا۔