طفل شیر خوار
آہ! کیوں دکھ دینے والی شے سے تجھ کو پیار ہےکھیل اس کاغذ کے ٹکڑے سے، یہ بے آزار ہے
English translation
Ah! Why fond of the troublesome things are you? This piece of paper is harmless, play with it.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 12 in “طفل شیر خوار” (The Suckling Baby) 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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