پھول کا تحفہ عطا ہونے پر
تجھے وہ شاخ سے توڑیں! زہے نصیب ترےتڑپتے رہ گئے گلزار میں رقیب ترے
English translation
He may pluck you from the branch! How lucky you are; your rivals in the garden may flounce at you.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 7 in “پھول کا تحفہ عطا ہونے پر” (On Being Presented With A Flower) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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