گلہ
جاں بھی گرو غیر، بدن بھی گرو غیرافسوس کہ باقی نہ مکاں ہے نہ مکیں ہے
English translation
His soul and frame to aliens have been sold. Alas! The soul on lodge has lost its hold.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
گرو غير: دوسروں کے پاس رہن رکھی ہوئی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۴