Song Despair (Iqbal's Shikwa)

                                            Song Of Despair Part- 15

                                                    (Iqbal’s Shikwa)

                                    The elite took to serving the victor,

                                    The Ummah shattered and got destroyed,

                                    Their tradition and culture perished,

                                    Their identity finished, they became deprived,

                                    In spite of all this Iqbal remained defiant,

                                    He continued to encourage, to rise and fight.

                                                                       

                                    There is no pleasure in living nor taste in dying,

                                    If there is any taste left, it is in lamentation;

                                    My thoughts are agitated in my heart,

                                    My emotions are seeking manifestation,

                                    In the Ummah there is none capable of visualization,

                                    Nobody sympathises with me, nobody has compassion.

                                    (Suggestions invited to make the above more exact.)