حکایت درین معنی
صاحب آوازہ ی الہام گشتواعظ شیران خون آشام گشت
English translation
He became as a prophet inspired, and began to preach to the blood-thirsty tigers.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
چنانچہ اس نے الہام کا دعوی کیا؛ اور خونخوار شیروں کو وعظ کہنا شروع کر دیا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 18 of 47 in “حکایت درین معنی” (A tale illustrating this concept.), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرارِ خودی), published in 1915.
Read it in the poem۱۸ / ۴۷