ایک مکڑا اور مکھی
ان نرم بچھونوں سے خدا مجھ کو بچائےسو جائے کوئی ان پہ تو پھر اٹھ نہیں سکتا
English translation
May God protect me from these soft beds; once asleep in them getting up again is impossible.’
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 14 of 24 in “ایک مکڑا اور مکھی” (A Spider And A Fly) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۱۴ / ۲۴