پھول
صنوبر باغ میں آزاد بھی ہے، پا بہ گل بھی ہےانھی پابندیوں میں حاصل آزادی کو تو کر لے
English translation
The juniper in the garden is free as well as chained to the soil; you should acquire freedom within these constraints!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 8 in “پھول” (Flower) 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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