It is in the latter poem that Iqbal’s oft-quoted, revolutionary lines figure: Jis khet se dahqaan ko mayassar nahi rozi/us khet ke har khosha-e-gandum ko jala do. In yet another poem in the collection, Farman-e-Khuda (The Divine Order), God urges his angels to wake up the oppressed and downtrodden of His world in order for them to shake off the shackles of poverty and oppression, overcoming the barriers of class: uthho meri dunya ke ghareebon ko jagaa do/kaakh-e-umaraa ke dar-o-deevaar hila do.Īlso read: May Day: What’s behind the layoff tsunami, and 4 ways techies can navigate it In the poem, published in 1935 in his collection Baal-e-Jibreel ( Gabriel’s Wing), one of the most significant Urdu poets of the 20th century alludes to the struggles of the working-class individuals who, despite being endowed with talents and abilities, are constrained by the structural inequalities and limitations imposed by the unjust society they inhabit. In Allama Iqbal’s poem Lenin (Khuda Ke Hazoor Mein)/ Lenin (Before God), Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary leader who played a pivotal role in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, tells the Almighty: tu qadir-o-aadil hai magar tere jahaan mein/hain talḳh bahut banda-e-mazdoor ke auqaat (Omnipotent, righteous, You but in your world/Hard indeed are the labourers’ hours). A group of migrant workers walk to their native places amid the nationwide complete lockdown, on the NH24 near Delhi-UP border in New Delhi on March 27, 2020.
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