پر ندے کی فر یاد
آزادیاں کہاں وہ اب اپنے گھونسلے کیاپنی خوشی سے آنا اپنی خوشی سے جانا
English translation
Gone are the freedoms of our own nests where we could come and go at our own pleasure.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 11 in “پر ندے کی فر یاد” (The Bird's Complaint) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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