غلاموں کی نماز
بدن غلام کا سوز عمل سے ہے محرومکہ ہے مرور غلاموں کے روز و شب پہ حرام
English translation
In slave's body beat for deeds is nil, always his days and nights are at stand still.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
مرور: گذرنے کا عمل۔روز و شب: دن اور رات۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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