خضرراہ
خواب سے بیدار ہوتا ہے ذرا محکوم اگرپھر سلا دیتی ہے اس کو حکمراں کی ساحری
English translation
If the ruled from his stupor slightly wakes up; the ruler’s spell lulls him back to sleep again.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
ساحري: جادوگری، مراد ہے دھوکہ بازی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 39 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) 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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