نفسیات غلامی
دین شیری میں غلاموں کے امام اور شیوخدیکھتے ہیں فقط اک فلسفہ روباہی
English translation
The chiefs and guides of slaves have sunk so low that it seems so much odd!
If mode of lions is presented to them, they will see naught save guile and fraud.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
روباہي: لومڑی کا روّیہ ۔ بزدلی، مکّاری۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “نفسیات غلامی” (Psychology Of Bondage) 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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