ایک گائے اور بکری
زور چلتا نہیں غریبوں کاپیش آیا لکھا نصیبوں کا
English translation
The poor ones like us are powerless; misfortunes surround the ones like us.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 of 29 in “ایک گائے اور بکری” (A Cow And A Goat) 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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