خواجگی
اس میں پیری کی کرامت ہے نہ میری کا ہے زورسینکڑوں صدیوں سے خوگر ہیں غلامی کے عوام
English translation
To bondage common man is wont, since times none can recall to mind; this wonder is not wrought by Guides, but by wealth's vigour blind.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
خوگر: عادی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “خواجگی” (Lordship) 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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