شکر و شکایت

لیکن مجھے پیدا کیا اس دیس میں تو نےجس دیس کے بندے ہیں غلامی پہ رضا مند

English translation

O God, to such a land I have been sent, where men in abject bondage feel content.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 4 in “⁨شکر و شکایت⁩” (Gratitude and Complaint) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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