انسان

رفتار کی لذت کا احساس نہیں اس کوفطرت ہی صنوبر کی محروم تمنا ہے

English translation

It does not appreciate the pleasure of movement; the very nature of juniper devoid of longing is!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 5 in “⁨انسان⁩” (The Human Race) 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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