مذہب غلامان
بند بر پا نیست بر جان و دل استمشکل اندر مشکل اندر مشکل است
English translation
The fetter is not on (slave’s) feet, it is on his heart and mind (on his courage and thinking); this is the difficulty, the real difficulty.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
زنجیر غلام کے پاؤں میں نہیں ہوتی بلکہ اس کے دل و جان (سوچ اور ہمت ) پر ہوتی ہے یہی مشکل اندر مشکل اندر مشکل ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 39 of 39 in “مذہب غلامان” (Religion Of Slaves) in the section On The Fine Arts Of Slaves, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
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