نفسیات غلامی
شاعر بھی ہیں پیدا، علما بھی، حکما بھیخالی نہیں قوموں کی غلامی کا زمانہ
English translation
The wise and bards in bondage both are born, of such births, the age of slavery is not shorn.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “نفسیات غلامی” (Psychology Of Bondage) in the section Politics of the East and the West, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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