شاہیں

حمام و کبوتر کا بھوکا نہیں میںکہ ہے زندگی باز کی زاہدانہ

English translation

I hunger not for birds of prey; mine is an austere life.

Translated by Mustansir Mir

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 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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