مرگ خودی
خودی کی موت سے ہندی شکستہ بالوں پرقفس ہوا ہے حلال اور آشیانہ حرام!
English translation
The Self of Indians is extinct, by pinions cleft is made distinct for they are pleased with prison life, to break the bars they wage no strife.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
شکستہ بالوں: ٹوٹے پروں والا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “مرگ خودی” (Death Of The Ego) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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