مشرق و مغرب

یہاں مرض کا سبب ہے غلامی و تقلیدوہاں مرض کا سبب ہے نظام جمہورینہ مشرق اس سے بری ہے، نہ مغرب اس سے بریجہاں میں عام ہے قلب و نظر کی رنجوری

English translation

In the East bondage and mimicry have spread the germs of pain and grief. In the West rule of chosen mobs is source of sorrows main and chief.
Neither the East is quite immune, nor West from germs is fully free; wide-spread the blight of heart and glance, a few can claim true joy and glee.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

رنجوري: بیماری۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 1 in “⁨مشرق و مغرب⁩” (The East And The West) 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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