ساقی نامہ
کبوتر کہیں آشیانے سے دورپھڑکتا ہوا جال میں ناصبور
English translation
And over there, far from its nest, a pigeon helplessly aflutter in a snare.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Word meanings
ناصبور: انتہائی بیتاب۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 56 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.
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