نصیحت
جو کبوتر پر جھپٹنے میں مزا ہے اے پسر!وہ مزا شاید کبوتر کے لہو میں بھی نہیں
English translation
More pleasure there is in pouncing upon thy prey, than in sucking the blood from its vanquished stillness.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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