ایک گائے اور بکری

اس کے دم سے ہے اپنی آبادیقید ہم کو بھلی، کہ آزادی

English translation

We derive all our prosperity from him. What is better for us, freedom or bondage to him?

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 23 of 29 in “⁨ایک گائے اور بکری⁩” (A Cow And A Goat) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۲۳ / ۲۹