ایک مکڑا اور مکھی
یہ بات کہی اور اڑی اپنی جگہ سےپاس آئی تو مکڑے نے اچھل کر اسے پکڑا
English translation
Saying this it flew from its place when it got close the spider snapped it.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 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 poem۲۳ / ۲۴