غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید
فرقہ آرائی کی زنجیروں میں ہیں مسلم اسیراپنی آزادی بھی دیکھ، ان کی گرفتاری بھی دیکھ
English translation
Muslims are tightly bound in chains of sectarianism; look at your freedom and at their bondage also look.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 18 in “غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید” (The First of Shawwal or the Crescent of Eid) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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