ابوالعلامعری
اے مرغک بیچارہ! ذرا یہ تو بتا توتیرا وہ گنہ کیا تھا یہ ہے جس کی مکافات؟
English translation
‘O You helpless little bird, would you tell me your sin for which this punishment has been awarded to you?
Translated by M. Munawwar Mirza
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “ابوالعلامعری” (Abu Al ‘Ala Al-Ma‘Arri) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۶