ہندی مکتب
آزاد کی اک آن ہے محکوم کا اک سالکس درجہ گراں سیر ہیں محکوم کے اوقات!
English translation
A free man's breath can match a subject year, how slowly moves the time of serfs is clear!
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
گراں سیر: سست رفتار۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 7 in “ہندی مکتب” (Indian School) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۷