Sunday, October 9, 2016

Prayer Of Slaves ( Iqbal's Ghulamon Ki Namaaz )

                                     Prayer Of Slaves
                        ( Turkish delegation of Red Crescent in Lahore )
                                                       In 1935.

                The Turkish mujahid asked me after the salah,
                Why your imams conduct such lengthy sujoods?

                That simple-minded mujahid, that sovereign momin,
                He was not informed what the salah of a slave is,

                 Thousands of engagements await a sovereign man,
                 Because of their fervour systems of nations exist,

                 The person of slave is devoid of burning to perform,
                 The time which passes by day and night is stationary for slave,
                
                  If they conduct lengthy sujoods, why it is surprising!
                  Other than sujoods the poor have no other task,

                  May Allah the beneficent bless the Indian imams with, *
                  That sajdah which radiates message of  ummah’s excellence.

                    * When this poem was written India was ruled by Britain.

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