نصیحت
بچہء شاہیں سے کہتا تھا عقاب سالخورداے تیرے شہپر پہ آساں رفعت چرخ بریں
English translation
An eagle, advanced in years, advised an eaglet thus: O thou, whose wings may one day aspire to the heavens above.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
سالخورد: بوڑھا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “نصیحت” (An Advice) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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