خواجگی
خواجگی میں کوئی مشکل نہیں رہتی باقیپختہ ہو جاتے ہیں جب خوئے غلامی میں غلام
English translation
When commons grow mature and ripe, in slavish bent and trend of heart; the governors can rule with ease, they don't face hurdles on their part.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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