شیر اور خچر
ساکنان دشت و صحرا میں ہے تو سب سے الگکون ہیں تیرے اب و جد، کس قبیلے سے ہے تو؟
English translation
LION: You are so different and unlike all the other dwellers of the wild and the desert! Who are your parents and ancestors? And what is your tribe?
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 2 in “شیر اور خچر” (The Lion And The Mule) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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