بلال
ہوئی اسی سے ترے غم کدے کی آبادیتری غلامی کے صدقے ہزار آزادی
English translation
This alone made inhabited your desolate house better than a thousand freedoms is your slavery.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 13 in “بلال” (Bilal) 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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