اسیری
ہے اسیری اعتبار افزا جو ہو فطرت بلندقطرئہ نیساں ہے زندان صدف سے ارجمند
English translation
Imprisonment enhances confidence if the nature is elegant; the spring drop becomes blessed inside the shell’s prison.*
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “اسیری” (Imprisonment) 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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