ایک مکالمہ
اک مرغ سرا نے یہ کہا مرغ ہوا سےپردار اگر تو ہے تو کیا میں نہیں پردار!
English translation
A domesticated bird once said to the wild bird: ‘If you have wings, do not I also have wings?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
مرغ ہوا: آزاد پرندہ۔مرغ سرا: پالتو پرندہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 7 in “ایک مکالمہ” (A Dialogue) 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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