آزادی
ہے کس کی یہ جرات کہ مسلمان کو ٹوکےحریت افکار کی نعمت ہے خدا داد
English translation
The right of thinking free, a Muslim owns, is gift or God which can't be checked by frowns.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
حريت افکار: خیالات کی آزادی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “آزادی” (Freedom) 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 poem۱ / ۴