آزادی

ہے مملکت ہند میں اک طرفہ تماشااسلام ہے محبوس، مسلمان ہے آزاد

English translation

In India queer and odd the farce you see, the Faith is captive, but the Muslims free.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 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 poem

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