ایک مکالمہ
تو مرغ سرائی، خورش از خاک بجوئیما در صدد دانہ بہ انجم زدہ منقار
English translation
You are a household bird; you seek food in the dust. We strike the star with our beak in search of the grain.’
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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