غلاموں کی نماز
ہزار کام ہیں مردان حر کو دنیا میںانھی کے ذوق عمل سے ہیں امتوں کے نظام
English translation
Free men have thousands of pursuits in life, nations progress through great zeal and strife.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
مردان حر: آزاد مرد۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 6 in “غلاموں کی نماز” (The Prayer Of Slaves) 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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