حکایت درین معنی
بسکہ از شیران نیاید جز شکارسرخ شد از خون میش آن مرغزار
English translation
For as much as tigers must have their prey; that meadow was crimsoned with the blood of the sheep.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
چونکہ شیروں کا کام ہی شکار ہے؛ وہ چراگاہ بھیڑ بکریوں کے خون سے سرخ ہو گئی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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 poem۷ / ۴۷