در چنین دشت بلا صد روزگارخوشتر از محکومی یک دم شمار

English translation

Spending centuries in such horrifying desert is better than a moment of slavery.
In these introductory lines (verses) Allamah has enumerated a long list of slavery-related curses that exist in this world; as observed and described by moon; the nearest celestial body to the planet Earth. The beauty of this description lies in the last of the thirty-one verses wherein he says that living in such horrifying world for centuries is better than a moment spent in slavery۔
It is because of the fact that slavery is one-word for a long list of afflictions to which human beings could be subjected, e.g. inequalities, injustice, discrimination, exploitation, cruelties, brutalities and so on. The ugliest aspect of this is that all these happen to human beings at the hands of fellow human beings.
This is two-way denial of human dignity. On one hand those human beings who enslave others try to trespass the exclusive domain of the God, and on the other, those who submit to servitude (slavery) are guilty of not believing in the capabilities bestowed upon the best of the creations of the Creator.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

ایسے دشت بلا میں کئی صدیاں گزارنا ، غلامی کی ایک گھڑی سے بہتر ہے۔