گلہ
معلوم کسے ہند کی تقدیر کہ اب تکبیچارہ کسی تاج کا تابندہ نگیں ہے
English translation
The Fate of Mind to none at all is known, this lustrous gem still decks the British crown.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “گلہ” (Complaint) 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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