الوقت سیف
عبد چون طایر بدام صبح و شاملذت پرواز بر جانش حرام
English translation
A slave is caught in the snare of days and nights like a bird and the pleasure of flight is forbidden to his soul!
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
عبد پرندے کی مانند صبح و شام کے دام میں گرفتار رہتا ہے؛ اس کی جان پر لذت پرواز حرام ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 of 61 in “الوقت سیف” (Time Is A Sword), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرارِ خودی), published in 1915.
Read it in the poem۳۰ / ۶۱