خضرراہ
گرمی گفتار اعضائے مجالس، الاماں!یہ بھی اک سرمایہ داروں کی ہے جنگ زرگری
English translation
May God protect us from the fervor of speeches of members of assemblies; this also is the capitalists’ sham quarreling to deceive the poor!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
اعضائے مجالس: قانون ساز اسمبلیوں کے ایوان۔الاماں: خدا محفوظ رکھے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 47 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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