ابوالعلامعری
افسوس، صد افسوس کہ شاہیں نہ بنا تودیکھے نہ تری آنکھ نے فطرت کے اشارات
English translation
Alas, you did not become a falcon; your eye did not perceive the directives of Nature.
Translated by M. Munawwar Mirza
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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.
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