رخصت اے بزم جہاں
قید ہے، دربار سلطان و شبستان وزیرتوڑ کر نکلے گا زنجیر طلائی کا اسیر
English translation
The king's audience and the minister's bed-chamber each is a prison; the golden chain's prisoner will break himself free from this prison.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 21 in “رخصت اے بزم جہاں” (Farewell O World's Congregation!) 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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