شاہیں

کیا میں نے اس خاک داں سے کناراجہاں رزق کا نام ہے آب و دانہ

English translation

I am a scorner of the earth; where life is a handful of grains.

Translated by Mustansir Mir

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 9 in “⁨شاہیں⁩” (The Eagle) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

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