بندگی نامہ

تا اسیر آب و گل کردی مرااز طواف او خجل کردی مرا

English translation

By bounding me to soil and water, made me ashamed of revolving around it.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

آپ نے مجھے آب وگل کا اسیر کر کے ، اس زمین کے طواف سے شرمسار کیا ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 of 31 in “⁨بندگی نامہ⁩” (The Book of Servitude) in the section Book of Servitude, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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