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.
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