حکایت درین معنی
شیر بیدار از فسون میش خفتانحطاط خویش را تہذیب گفت
English translation
The wakeful tiger was lulled to slumber by the sheep's charm; he called his decline Moral Culture.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
بیدار شیر بھیڑ کے جادو سے سو گئے؛ اور اپنے اس انحطاط کو تہذیب کہنے لگے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 47 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 poem۴۷ / ۴۷