شاہیں
جھپٹنا، پلٹنا، پلٹ کر جھپٹنالہو گرم رکھنے کا ہے اک بہانہ
English translation
To swoop, withdraw and swoop again is only a pretext to keep up the heat of the blood.
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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