خضرراہ
دیو استبداد جمہوری قبا میں پاے کوبتو سمجھتا ہے یہ آزادی کی ہے نیلم پری
English translation
The monster of despotism is treading in democracy’s robe; you consider it as the beautiful ferry of independence!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
پاے کوب: نیچے والا ۔استبداد: ظلم۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 45 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.
Read it in the poem۴۵ / ۸۵