ایک پہاڑ اور گلہری
خدا کی شان ہے ناچیز چیز بن بیٹھیںجو بے شعور ہوں یوں باتمیز بن بیٹھیں
English translation
It is strange when the insignificant pose as important! When the stupid ones like you pose as intelligent!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 12 in “ایک پہاڑ اور گلہری” (A Mountain And A Squirrel) 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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