یہاں مرض کا سبب ہے غلامی و تقلید
وہاں مرض کا سبب ہے نظام جمہوری
Yahan maraz ka sabab hai ghulami-o-taqlid
Vahan maraz ka sabab hai nizam-e-jamhuri
نہ مشرق اس سے بری ہے، نہ مغرب اس سے بری
جہاں میں عام ہے قلب و نظر کی رنجوری
Na mashriq is se bari hai, na maghrib is se bari
Jahan mein aam hai qalb-o-nazar ki ranjuri
Source: Zarb-e-Kalim (1936), section "Siyasiyat-e-Mashriq-o-Maghrib"
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Two couplets titled "East and West". Here the illness comes from servitude and imitation, there from the democratic system; neither East nor West is free of it, and sickness of heart and sight is everywhere.
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