ایک مکڑا اور مکھی
اس جال میں مکھی کبھی آنے کی نہیں ہےجو آپ کی سیڑھی پہ چڑھا، پھر نہیں اترا
English translation
This fly would never be pulled into your net, whoever climbed your net could never step down.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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.
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