شاہیں

بیاباں کی خلوت خوش آتی ہے مجھ کوازل سے ہے فطرت مری راہبانہ

English translation

My nature, like a hermit’s, loves wild solitude; I have saintly nature.

Translated by Mustansir Mir

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 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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