ایک مکڑا اور مکھی
مکڑے نے کہا دل میں سنی بات جو اس کیپھانسوں اسے کس طرح یہ کم بخت ہے دانا
English translation
The spider spoke to itself on hearing this talk: ‘How to trap it? This wretched fellow is clever.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 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 poem۱۵ / ۲۴