خضرراہ
مکر کی چالوں سے بازی لے گیا سرمایہ دارانتہائے سادگی سے کھا گیا مزدور مات
English translation
The capitalist has won with deceitful stratagems due to extreme naivete the laborer is checkmated.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 55 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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