نصیحت
غم صیاد نہیں، اور پر و بال بھی ہیںپھر سبب کیا ہے، نہیں تجھ کو دماغ پرواز
English translation
You are not afraid of hunters, as you have wings also then why are you not inclined for flight?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 12 in “نصیحت” (Advice) 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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