ایک مکالمہ
واقف نہیں تو ہمت مرغان ہوا سےتو خاک نشیمن، انھیں گردوں سے سروکار
English translation
Are you unacquainted with the courage of the wild birds? You live on the dust; they are concerned with the sky.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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