گلہ

یورپ کی غلامی پہ رضا مند ہوا تومجھ کو تو گلہ تجھ سے ہے، یورپ سے نہیں ہے

English translation

With Europe's bondage you are quite content, no plaint 'gainst them, but I your act resent.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 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 poem

۴ / ۴