ساقی نامہ

کہیں جرہ شاہین سیماب رنگلہو سے چکوروں کے آلودہ چنگ

English translation

There is a silver-grey, brave falcon here, its talons covered with the blood of partridges.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

Word meanings

چنگ: پنجے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 55 of 99 in “⁨ساقی نامہ⁩” (The Cupbearer's Epistle) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

Read it in the poem

۵۵ / ۹۹