شیر اور خچر
میرے ماموں کو نہیں پہچانتے شاید حضوروہ صبا رفتار، شاہی اصطبل کی آبرو
English translation
MULE: Perhaps your highness does not know my uncle – my mother’s brother: He gallops like the wind, and is the pride of the royal stable! – Adapted from German.
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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