گلہ
دہقاں ہے کسی قبر کا اگلا ہوا مردہبوسیدہ کفن جس کا ابھی زیر زمیں ہے
English translation
Her peasant seems like corpse for want and dearth, whose rotten shroud is still beneath the earth.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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