تری دنیا جہان مرغ و ماہی

تری دنیا جہان مرغ و ماہیمری دنیا فغان صبح گاہیتری دنیا میں میں محکوم و مجبورمری دنیا میں تیری پادشاہی!

English translation

Thine is the world of birds and beasts, O Lord! And mine is the world of sighs by day and night;
I am a shackled slave in this world of Thine, and Thou art the supreme ruler of my world.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 1 in “⁨تری دنیا جہان مرغ و ماہی⁩” (Teri duniya jahan-e-murgh o maahi) in the section Quatrains, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

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